That I understand. I've been using it for 9 months now.
I do believe if you add to your sources.list the Corel sites (being
that it, too, is debian based), there is a .deb for WP8 "light". But
then, I may be wrong. I don't use WordPerfect or Star Office.
I guess I didn't explain it clearly, then. But you are right in that, if it
ain't in .deb form and it's not on a site/tree useable by apt, then
you can't apt-get it.
Then again, since apt is being developed to work with .rpms, too,
that .deb-dependency may not be the case for long.
I've tried it with Conectiva 6.0 and it works pretty well if you have an
rpm-based system -- still some wrinkles, though. (No surprise
there.)
On 7 Dec 00, at 8:26, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
> 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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