I installed Corel Linux, found that emacs was nowhere to be found, so I promptly loaded Red Hat. Then I loaded the Corel suite into the Red Hat Linux. No problems. Word Perfect runs fine, but maybe with a few cosmetic glitches that you don't see when it runs under Corel Linux. > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jason > Brown > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:53 PM > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Corel Help > > > > 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, wrote: > > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:21:48 -0600 (MDT) > > To: Phoenix Linux User Group > > From: > > 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. > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >