On 02.08.2005 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:59:40PM +0000, Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: > > Hi,
> > Note that its successors (Open Office) are no solution > > for me (no integrated Desktop, no news reader/mail client, > > no StarShedule, ...). Especially the news reader would > > be important, cause then I could use Debian, to write > > my news (I read this mailing list via Usenet). > There are approximately a kajillion (that's a technical term) news > reader/writer programs in Debian. To say nothing of the ones that are > available for Linux but not packaged for Debian. I know, but I have to learn a lot of new things, and I would prefer to continue with the StarOffice news reader. And as I have said, StarOffice 5.2 is the program I most often use on my other OSs. > > I know ask, if I simply should try to install it, as > > described in the installation manual, or if there may > > be problems, perhaps destroying my Debian installation. > > > I can't imagine that it would do anything *really* bad. You may run > into problems with not having the correct shared libraries, given the > age of SO5.2. But the necessary packages are probably still in Woody. Well I think I will try it, when I have solved my font problem (see another message from me). > > Has anyone experience with installing StarOffice 5.2? > > > Why not just upgrade to SO7 or 8 (I think 8 is the newest version)? It > is fairly inexpensive, especially compared to MSO. I love the integrated Desktop, the mail/news reader with spell checking, StarShedule, ... All of that is missing in newer versions of StarOffice. Peter -- peter_sulzer doesn't like spam and this is my domain: t-online.de
