Chad, figure out how to make a "patch" file for applix and people will then be able to use alien with the "patch" file on the applix rpm to get a good deb from it.
Shaya On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : > Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install > > : > difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away from msoffice and > > : > use linux exclusively if possible. Thanks > > : > > > : > > : Try out StarOffice before you decide which office suit to use together > > : with Linux. I have found it very nice ... and version 3.1 is free if > > : you use it in a non-commercial purpose. > > : > > : Check it out at: > > : http://www.stardiv.de/ > > : > > : I don't think you'll find any difficulties installing Applixware. If > > : I'm right there is an non-rpm installation included on the cd. > > > > I've had a play around with StarOffice; the main reason I didn't get it > > is because I don't have a 'Net connection at home, and the prospect of > > lugging everything back on 1.44MB floppies doesn't really appeal. I've > > forked out $99AUS for the student edition of Applixware; it's nice. Very > > nice. My only beef: the non-rpm installation tries to install everything > > into /opt. Not a good move, especially since my 30MB root partition only > > had 15MB free.... > > Use the .rpm and run `alien applix*.rpm`, after some quik debugging and > installing dpkg-dev from hamm and 3 hours of building ... slow system > here. I installed the created .deb and have been using it all day ... > very nice .. better than Star Office which had quit wanting to run at all. > > > I ended up test driving Redhat for a while on my /home partition (don't > > ask, please); whilst I was dding that, I installed Applixware somewhere > > in /usr/local. (under Debian, that would have been /home/usr/local/ ... > > as I said, don't ask :) > > > > Tar it up, untar it into the Debian /usr/local heirachy, and everything is > > happy happy joy joy. (with some script editing, of course.) One of these > > days, I might get around to doing some work on an installation package. In > > my Copious Spare Time, naturally. ;) > > I have the applix.deb now .. even though it is 37MB .. no way in hades am > I gona delete it ... don't wana go through all that alien stuff again. > > chad > > > -- > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > > Version: 3.1 > > GCS d-(++) s+:- a-- C++>$ UL+++(++++)>++++$ P-(---) L++(+++)>+++$ !E--- > > W+(--)>-- N+(++)> o+>++ K- !w--- !O- !M- !V- PS+ PE Y(+) PGP+>+++ t 5 !X > > !R tv-(--)>! b++(++++)>++++ DI+(+)>++++ D++(---) G+ e++ h>++ !r>+++ y? > > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Southwest Technology Development Institute > New Mexico State University > --- > HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ > DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ > LCAO: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Las_Cruces_Art/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .