StarOffice
Dpk
dpk@egr.msu.edu
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:55:25 -0400
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:56:13PM -0400, Paul Melson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:29:02AM -0400, Sean wrote:
> Has anyone tried to compile staroffice? I am just curious how
> well it works.
I'd be impressed if anybody in this list has source and has
compiled it. It just comes as kind of a big tarball of
binaries from Sun. It's got a very easy to use setup
interface, so just su to root, launch X11 and run the setup
script, I use 5.2 all the time. I just put together a 30+
slide show for a conference this week, and I write most of my
papers with it so that I can send them as attachments
(MSWord97 format).
The source code for Star Office was recently released under the GPL:
http://www.openoffice.org/
I personally have not tried to download or compile it.
Dennis