[plug] Local StarOffice...

[Tony Clark]

This is probabley offtopic, but I picked up the CD from everythinglinux for
$25...Has all versions for all OSs on it.  By the time you download it, you
would probabley have the CD  :)

Tony

At 10:45 14/02/00 +0800, you wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>There was a bit of discussion recently about the "latest" StarOffice,
>I think 5.1a. For those who have downloaded and played with it, can
>you tell me if it links to glibc 2.1? The "old" StarOffice 5.1 I was
>using on my main machine and last night failed to reinstall tries to
>use glibc 2.0 by default.
>
>I'm considering upgrading to the latest in a desperate attempt to get
>around a spectacular bug in XFree86 3.3.6 on my Debian potato
>system... simply starting up StarOffice causes the Xserver to crash.
>
>Which was a bit of a bugger, as I had quite a few files in SO format I
>needed to edit :-(. Thankfully my work machine (also Debian, also X
>3.3.6) still seems to have no problem with StarOffice, and I can at
>least get my spreadsheets into an *ahem* "format" Gnumeric can handle,
>though it makes me feel ill to do so. :(
>
>
>Anyway, does anyone know of (or have made available ;) a local mirror
>of the latest StarOffice? I vainly attempted to start a download from
>Sun's site but even the bloody form request timed out on me *roll of eyes*.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Pete.
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>
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