On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Arafat Mohamed wrote:
> So I'd like to install Staroffice and try it out (unless you guys have a
> good reason why I shouldn't).
No reason at all. It's a great package to have around for all those
clients who *insist* on sending you Word-formatted documents.
Just make sure you have about 275Mb free on disk before installing, is
all.
> The staroffice package is a *.bin. I'm not sure how to run it, but I'm
> guessing it's something like ./*.bin.
Yup. It'll then give you an installation "wizard", a la MS.
> Will this mess up my package dependencies?
Shouldn't do. Never has done for me.
> i.e. If I use dpkg to install
> another package later on, could this be a possible conflict down the road?
Only if the new package is Staroffice :)
> Also, is there a staroffice.deb somewhere? Make my life easier.
Not to my knowledge.
root@startext:~# apt-get install staroffice
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package staroffice has no available version, but exists in the
database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency
and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the
contents of sources.list
E: Package staroffice has no installation candidate
root@startext:~#
HTH
msw
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