On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:09:52AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to install an app from one Linux package into another? I
> > have a SuSE 6.2 with StarOffice (among others) and I would like to be able
> > to install it in Mandrake. If this can be done, how so? I have Mandrake
> > 6.1 CD-ROM only, not the commercial distribution. When I've tried to
> > install SuSE, the options are there to install the applications. How would
> > I install these under Mandrake? and.... Would the StarOffice distributed
> > with the commercial SuSE 6.2 only work with SuSE 6.2 (another words, is it
> > licenced for use only with SuSE)?
> >
> You should be able to get the "tarball" distribution of
> Star Office from the StarOffice website
> (www.stardivision.com...which redirects you to a Sun.com
> website <G>) and install it in there. I'm not sure you can
> use the version of SO that comes with SuSE, as it may come
> in an incompatible format. Sure you can use the "alien"
> package convertor, but it'd just be easier to get the
> tarball and install it, I think. :-)
SuSE uses RPM. And RPM's are tons easier than tarballs. :)
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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corporation
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