On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:59:40PM +0000, Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: > Hi, > > I shortly installed Debian to my notebook. Except of some > minor problems (see my previous messages), it is working :-) > > I have StarOffice 5.2 for Linux, but unfortunately it > is not a deb-Package. StarOffice 5.2 would be most > important for me, cause it is the program, I use most > often on Windows and OS/2 (4.0 on OS/2, but very similar). > OK. What problem are you having with the installation?
> Note that its successors (Open Office) are no solution > for me (no integrated Desktop, no news reader/mail client, > no StarShedule, ...). Especially the news reader would > be important, cause then I could use Debian, to write > my news (I read this mailing list via Usenet). > There are approximately a kajillion (that's a technical term) news reader/writer programs in Debian. To say nothing of the ones that are available for Linux but not packaged for Debian. > I know ask, if I simply should try to install it, as > described in the installation manual, or if there may > be problems, perhaps destroying my Debian installation. > I can't imagine that it would do anything *really* bad. You may run into problems with not having the correct shared libraries, given the age of SO5.2. But the necessary packages are probably still in Woody. > Has anyone experience with installing StarOffice 5.2? > Why not just upgrade to SO7 or 8 (I think 8 is the newest version)? It is fairly inexpensive, especially compared to MSO. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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