On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install > : > difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away from msoffice and > : > use linux exclusively if possible. Thanks > : > > : > : Try out StarOffice before you decide which office suit to use together > : with Linux. I have found it very nice ... and version 3.1 is free if > : you use it in a non-commercial purpose. > : > : Check it out at: > : http://www.stardiv.de/ > : > : I don't think you'll find any difficulties installing Applixware. If > : I'm right there is an non-rpm installation included on the cd. > > I've had a play around with StarOffice; the main reason I didn't get it > is because I don't have a 'Net connection at home, and the prospect of > lugging everything back on 1.44MB floppies doesn't really appeal. I've > forked out $99AUS for the student edition of Applixware; it's nice. Very > nice. My only beef: the non-rpm installation tries to install everything > into /opt. Not a good move, especially since my 30MB root partition only > had 15MB free....
Use the .rpm and run `alien applix*.rpm`, after some quik debugging and installing dpkg-dev from hamm and 3 hours of building ... slow system here. I installed the created .deb and have been using it all day ... very nice .. better than Star Office which had quit wanting to run at all. > I ended up test driving Redhat for a while on my /home partition (don't > ask, please); whilst I was dding that, I installed Applixware somewhere > in /usr/local. (under Debian, that would have been /home/usr/local/ ... > as I said, don't ask :) > > Tar it up, untar it into the Debian /usr/local heirachy, and everything is > happy happy joy joy. (with some script editing, of course.) One of these > days, I might get around to doing some work on an installation package. In > my Copious Spare Time, naturally. ;) I have the applix.deb now .. even though it is 37MB .. no way in hades am I gona delete it ... don't wana go through all that alien stuff again. chad > -- > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GCS d-(++) s+:- a-- C++>$ UL+++(++++)>++++$ P-(---) L++(+++)>+++$ !E--- > W+(--)>-- N+(++)> o+>++ K- !w--- !O- !M- !V- PS+ PE Y(+) PGP+>+++ t 5 !X > !R tv-(--)>! b++(++++)>++++ DI+(+)>++++ D++(---) G+ e++ h>++ !r>+++ y? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ LCAO: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Las_Cruces_Art/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
