On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> The one thing about Windows that I liked more than in Linux was
> installing programs. If you are honest most will admit that installing
> programs in Linux can be both fustrating and exasperating.
> Well someone has at last shown a light at the end of the tunnel.
> Sun has released Star Office 5.2. I download it for both Windows and for
> Linux. Yesterday I installed in Win2000 and today I decided to try the
> install in Linux, hoping that it would not require to much hair pulling.
> Do you know what I had to do to get Star Office to install in Linux? I
> had to click on the file. It actually had it's own installation program and
> installed itself. The GUI was even the same as that used in the Win
> installation. I was shocked. Happy but shocked. I had never before seen a
> Linux program do this.
> My one hope now is that more companies and developers will follow Sun's
> example and treat Linux users with the same degree of concern and support as
> they show Window users.
> If you want to try it the URL is www.sun.com/staroffice
> The Linux download is 93MB and you need to run the installation program as
> user not as root.
>
> Charles :-)
I don't agree Charles. What's wrong with rpm? Easy to install
and uninstall. If all the various software vendors and developers
began devising their own 'automatic' installs, I suspect utter
chaos, and a lot of broken distros would shortly be the result.
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
