tony:
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----- Forwarded message from Tony Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: Tony Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Inquiry
Angus Lees,
Secretary, SLUG
Dear Angus,
I'm not sure if you're the right person to bother
with my problem (if not, I apologize!), but I couldn't find any other
likely source of advice on your website, so I thought I would try asking
you. I am a Mac user, of the ordinary, non-hacker variety, but towards
the end of last year I read that SuSE had brought out a version of Linux
(7.1, PowerPC version) that could be installed on a Mac, reportedly
without too much difficulty. So I bought this version, bought a new
(discontinued model) iBook, and did in fact manage to partition the hard
disk and install both systems successfully. Now however I have struck a
problem that I haven't been able to solve. I want to install WordPerfect
and Star Office in the Linux partition, and for the last couple of
months (off and on) have been trying unsuccessfully to do so from a disk
that comes with Next Handbooks' "Learning Linux" (which I bought just
because it had these two programs on it). Of course the Linux OS is
complicated, and I don't really understand it very well yet, but even
so, I've tried to follow the instructions I found on the disk, attempted
to use YaST and rpm according to the advice in the SuSE manual, and so
on but all to no avail. So now I'm stuck, and that is why I'm writing to
you, in the hope that there may be somebody at SLUG that would be able
and willing to advise me. If there is, or if you could give me any other
advice yourself, could you please let me know?
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Tony Prince
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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