There was a post on zdnet recently saying that Sun was supposedly planning to release staroffice source licensed under the GPL. That would allow it to be packaged as part of Debian. I haven't seen any official announcement, however.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Morten Liebach wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package? I searched > > > the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not > > > the 5.1. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > I don't think you can. > > > > It's easy to install the file you download (~100Meg BTW), just make the > > downloaded file executable and run it, with the option ``/net'' (NOT > > ``-net'') if you want to run it as user, without installing to your > > homedir. > > Do that as root of course. > > > You can get SO 5.2 from www.sun.com (~100Meg). Install in /usr/local > with the /net parameter. Getting it off sun.com is a PITA though. > > > -- > "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire > > Ed C. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
