--- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I last checked Star Office was not a package in > the stable > distribution. > > For our small school, which I am about to switch > from NT to Linux, Star > Office appears to be the answer to our need for a > bundle of stable office > programs. We mainly need a smooth switchover from > MS Word, Excel and > Internet Explorer. > > Is there anything special in the Star Office install > process that will > conflict with debian package management? I have > been very pleased with > package management with debian. It has made my life > easier and my system > more sane. Any references for Debian Star Office > installs? > > Thanks for previous help from list. > Joe Golden > The Stevens School > _________________________________________________________________
Hi, The Star Office binary installer from Sun does a very nice job as a source installer. I have not yet tried to alien it so it can be recognized by the dpkg package system but it installs on a debian system w/o problems. The only thing that I wish it would do is to make a default entry in each users home directory for a system-wide install (installed as root). Right now for a system-wide install each user must install it as well choosing an option that does a minimal user install referencing the system-wide install. P.S. You might want to change your email website. Since MickeySloth (micros*ft) bought the service it has some rather icky riders in the end-user aggreement (as in anything sent thru the service becomes the intellectual property of MS). I've been fairly happy w/ linuxfreemail.com . It doesn't have all the nicer features of hotmail, but it is a good service that is almost always up (now that MS has switched from BSD servers to Win2K w/ IIS 5.0 the reliablity of the service is somewhat lacking IMHO. ===== Regards- Tim Stetson Whiskey Sour Nuhn O. Yobiznez Licq # 14373626 Why?.........Why not?..............Why not try? The rule of an inquisitive mind. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/