Corel Help

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, <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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