As I have HAD to deal with corel linux, the best advice I can give is get a
real distribution.  If you want to use a debian based distro, try storm. 
Corel ships a neutered package set, and I have found even basic stuff
missing.

If you really want the corel desktop, get apt-get going and reconfigure it
for debian potato and update the system that way.  You can still have the
gui, but the libs, etc can be updated.

Jason

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, <carl@marvin.qwk.net> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:21:48 -0600 (MDT)
> To: Phoenix Linux User Group <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> From: <carl@marvin.qwk.net>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Corel Help
> 
> Okay I installed Corel Linux Standard 1.1 on a P120 box with 64megs of
> memory. It was *so* easy. But of course I can't leave well enough alone
> soooo here is what I'm having problems with. If anyone can help, I'd
> appricate it. I'm trying to install M16 of Mozilla. Using the installer
> (I haven't tried building my own yet) requires unzip and it looks like
> Corel doesn't come with unzip. Should I just download unzip and try to
> install it? (so far trying to do my own installs haven't worked out so
> well) I tried just aliasing gunzip to unzip but the default shell doesn't
> seem to understand what I'm doing (just alias unzip "gunzip"). I thought
> I
> was just using tcsh but hey I'm using Corel so I obviously don't know
> Linux that well. <g> 
>  Next I wanted to install StarOffice 5.2 but that requires glib2.1 and
> while I don't know what version of glib Corel is running I do know it's
> not glib2.1 so I went to Corel's site thinking I could just run the
> updater interface thing they have (which I'm sure when I learn how to use
> it will be kewl) Nothing can't find anything to do with glib so I start
> looking a Debian (corel is really just debian2.1 right?) only I couldn't
> find anything there either. Lots of info about the libraries at Red hat
> and Suse but I admit I don't know enough about the different flavors to
> know if I can just use those or not.
>   Finally the nice little "file manager" like thing Corel gives you works
> perfectly for me I'm able to see both my other linux boxes and all my NT
> boxes on the network. But can't seem to smbmount a drive. This is
> *really*
> bothering me because while I don't know Linux all that well I used to be
> a
> Unix Admin and thought I'd be able to use those (admittly rusty) skills
> to
> make up for it. Now it seems that I can't do just about anything from the
> command line (okay I'm streaching just a bit). But everythings seems to
> be
> in weird places or just not there because the GUI tools takes care of
> everything. I suspect RH and other distro *must* be closer to the UNIX I
> know but *really* want to test how much I can get out of Corel. Can
> anyone
> suggest any good books from going from Solaris to Linux? Or are they
> really as similar as I thought and I should just contiue to plow through?
> 
> Anyway didn't mean to type out a book but will be thankful to any help I
> you can give me. 
> 
> thanks, 
> Carl Parrish
> webmaster
> www.carlparrish.com
> 
> 
> 
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