From koffice Sun Jun 06 19:45:00 2004 From: Marc Heyvaert Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:45:00 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: newbie installation issues Message-Id: <20040606194500.36479.qmail () web41510 ! mail ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=108655113820198 Hello Richard, The best way to install Koffice for a non-technical KDE (or Linux) user, is to do it from binary packages, not from the sources. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of binaries existing for Redhat. Perhaps someone else may confirm this, but I thin that the links on the koffice site only point to Mandrake and SuSE packages. But searching the internet may yield something... Installing from sources is a little bit harder, especially because you need a working 'tool' chain on your PC, so all the compilers and help programs to compile KOffice. You also need to have a part of KDE installed and from a lot of packages you also need the so called 'developement packages'. But a lot of "user-friendly" distributions don't install those per default. So the conclusion is that probably your system -if it came right out of the box, or CD- may need some tweaking before you can actually compile ANY program. So I want to stress that it is not some added compexity from KOffice. Having said that, trying to do this install can be fun (and sometimes a bit frustrating) but you will learn a lot about linux! So the decision is yours... The following pages may help you with your quest : http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.3.1-release.php http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+KOffice+Step+by+Step http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+CVS+Step+by+Step I hope this helps Marc P.S. The wiki seems to be down for the moment. If the page doesn't come up, try again later. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice