On 12/7/2000 08:02, TODD WITTER at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Both of you have the wrong concept. You can only use apt-get to download and
install software that has been packaged in .deb format. You add the location
for said package to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. If neither of these are
true, you can't apt-get the software, regardless of the license.
Now that said, Debian prides itself on being the most "free" version of
Linux around. Most of the software is GPL or LGPL. But there are a few
non-free packages available around also.
I don't know if WordPerfect or OpenOffice is apt-getable as I don't think
anyone has packaged that software (if Corel Packaged WP, I have no idea
where it is. AFAIK, It's only available as a tar.gz file).
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