Hal,
I have a Staroffice tarball installed. I'm not very impressed with it.
But, it's a way of being able to edit Word and Excell files. It's almost
compatible. ;-)
Anyway, thanks for the explanation.
Gustav
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:28:28PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> > Hal,
> >
> > Where did you find an rpm for Staroffice?
>
> I have never used staroffice. I just assumed you were using the one
> off the RH CD (I got one with 6.1). And again, assuming that is rpm. I
> would thing it is available somewhere.
>
> > Regards
> > Gustav
> >
> > Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 01:16:53AM +0000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:08:44PM -0500, skybell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hey, Sorry for the dumb question but I need a little help. Where
> > > > > can I find info on where programs by default install. I installed
> > > > > star office and can't find it in Gnome. How can I find out where
> > > > > it was installed and how I can get some shortcuts to my desktop.
> > > > > Thanks, in advance.
> > > >
> > > > why not try using 'locate' to find your file(s) ?
> > >
> > > This is good if the locate db is update to date. find is also useful.
> > >
> > > If installed via rpm, use the rpm tools:
> > >
> > > [hal@feenix hal]$ rpm -ql telnet
> > > /etc/X11/applnk/Internet/telnet.desktop
> > > /etc/X11/wmconfig/telnet
> > > /usr/bin/telnet
> > > /usr/man/man1/telnet.1
> > > /usr/man/man5/issue.net.5
> > > /usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8
> > > /usr/man/man8/telnetd.8
> > > /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> > >
> > > You can also query the package itself:
> > >
> > > rpm -qpl /path/to/rpm/telnet-0.10-31.rpm
> > >
> > > Note the 'p' in the latter. You might want to pipe this thru less with
> > > larger packages. Or use grep if you an inkling of what you are looking
> > > for.
>
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