Well, since both Star Office (now Open Office) is GPL and there is
a free version of wordperfect, they are both "apt-gettable".
You need to look at your sources.list. That is where apt looks to
download packages. I would think a Corel ftp site (or source)
would be where one could get the wordperfect package but I don't
know off hand what that site is.
Some people have source.lists 70-100 lines long! But be careful...
some of those are "unstable" and others are "stable". If this is all
new to you , don't use any sources that contain the words
"unstable" "woody" "experimental" and such. Use those when you
feel confident enought to fix things on your machine if packages
from one of those sites mess up your computer a bit. :)
On 7 Dec 00, at 7:48, David Kehoe wrote:
> Last night I installed gkrellm. At first I tried using the available tar
> file and when the make install command didn't work I explored the deb
> file that was also offered. However, I got lazy and before I looked into
> it too deeply I thought I would try apt-get - success! I'm really
> starting to enjoy that utility.
>
> My question is this: to what extent can I install things with apt-get?
> Is it limited to software under the GPL license? Could I use it for
> things like Star Office or Word Perfect? Also, a brief explanation of
> which tool/command should be used for .deb files would be appreciated.
>
> Finally, one of the things I appreciate about apt-get is that I don't
> have to know where to install things. The biggest question I have about
> linux in general is where the hell things belong. With previous distros
> I have just installed things in my home directory, but learned the hard
> way that my approach wasn't the best. Can someone reccomend a book (or
> website, or readme file) that explains the thought behind the debian
> file structure? Particularly something that pays attention to WHY a new
> application should be stored in directory 'X'
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David K
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