Thanks Matt.
I - think - I downloaded StarOffice 5.2 last night. The first download
connection failed so I restarted it and, since it indicated it would take 5
hours, I went to bed. In the morning my root account was 40% full and I
found /home/adam had
so-5_2-qa-bin-linux-en.bin
in it. I assume it's a binary file. How do I execute it ? /sbin/......
?
I'll deal with the device drivers later. Devices include Epson Stylus
Printer, Epson Perfection 640U scanner, LG CD-RW CED-8080B, and Pioneer
DVD-ROM.
Cheers,
Adam.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 May, 2001 10:00 AM
To: Adam F. Bogacki
Cc: David Kempe; Slug@Slug. Org. Au
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Re. Debian birth pangs: mail and Lilo ...
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
> I also tried apt-get with StarOffice 5.2 without success. Neither
> 'soffice' nor 'StarOffice' worked. I know it can be downloaded from
> http://www.sun.com/staroffice - but surely apt-get does it better - is it
> part of the 2.2.r2 distribution ?
Nope. StarOffice isn't DFSG free (maybe OpenOffice 6.0 is, but it's a dog)
so it's not in the distro. I don't think anyone's packaged it because the
license (IIRC) doesn't allow that sort of thing.
You'll have to download and install it separately - them's the breaks.
> Re. "you have only just begun" - I'm always keen to learn something new.
Well, you're on the right track for that.
> > One thing which worries me is that a number of device drivers did not
> > install, specifically lp (printer) and none of the CD-ROM ones. This
> > happened under both 2.2r2 and 2.2r3 .... I am not sure if this is a bug
or
> > if there is something I am missing.
This sounds like you didn't add the devices in the setup. For the printer:
echo "lp" >> /etc/modules; modprobe lp
should sort you out now and for the future.
The CD-ROM drivers, well, for that you'll have to give details as to what
sort it is - unless it's ATAPI (IDE), in which case the support is compiled
in (I think - I roll my own kernels 99% of the time).
> >There were no parameters involved with
> > 'lp' so it could be a software problem, fixable (I hope) by downloading
> the
> > appropriate driver from the Epson website.
'lp' is a kernel module to provide access to the parallel port. Supporting
specific printers in the job of a userspace printing system - I recommend
magicfilter, for all your printing needs. It uses GhostScript as it's print
system, and it's pretty damn magic (IMO).
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