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List:       linux-ppc
Subject:    Re: KOffice
From:       Nelson Abramson <pogtal () erols ! com>
Date:       1999-11-16 3:46:55
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Mike Moran wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the place to ask but ...
>
> Is there anyone working on KOffice for LinuxPPC?
>
> Does anyone have any RPMs for the port of KOffice?
>
> I downloaded the latest source snap-shots from koffice.kde.org
> and began compiling them, but this required me to upgrade
> to the latest readline library from gnu.org, and frankly, I'm
> a little nervous about installing them, fearing incompatibility
> going from 2.2 to 4.0.
>
> Any experiences, help, pointers, or warnings are appreciated.

I would be VERY careful with koffice.  I have had a lot of bad
experiences on a variety of linux platforms (debian on ix86, linuxppc,
etc) where it just never works :)  It has a lot of wierd system
requirements, wanting old versions of the libc libraries but new ones of
python and a few others.  kIllustrator is in rpm form on the ftp site
though.  I would recomend a blend of gimp, abiword, killustrator, kpaint,
etc (and maybe even latex if you are REALLY serious about documents :) ).

--Nelson Abramson

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