kevin05jan
08-06-2004, 05:38 PM
I got many question and dont know where exactly I should put them on.
Basically I am looking for an alternative for MS and found Suse at first not bad but liked knoppix more - dont know why. However I do encounter many unsolved problems so far:
1) as using office tools like open office, it seems not really compatible to ms office. in addition a basic thing like create a blue gradient background in presentation slides is not possible. Therefore I wanted to test and install koffice. yet I met many problems. i managed to install qt after 2hrs but koffice would stop immediately when i do 'make' coz it didnt find 'all-am' file in each subdirectory.
2) i want to start using kdevelop for perl and c++ programming, though it does not provide a debugger for perl. still i cant make a gui, coz it complains that i havent install kdelib. but why? according to the package.txt it must be installed. so what now?
3) code name 'sid'. i realised that sid is a code in debian for unstable versions. so after installing knoppix 3.4 on my hd i am running an unstable version??? hope not. and if so...shall i use 3.4 just to be safe?
4) ./configure and make. nice but yet timeconsuming. are there already to use packages for download for debian in analogy to the simplicity in microsoft, where you download and install the stuff?
hope to find answers soon.
cheers
kev
Basically I am looking for an alternative for MS and found Suse at first not bad but liked knoppix more - dont know why. However I do encounter many unsolved problems so far:
1) as using office tools like open office, it seems not really compatible to ms office. in addition a basic thing like create a blue gradient background in presentation slides is not possible. Therefore I wanted to test and install koffice. yet I met many problems. i managed to install qt after 2hrs but koffice would stop immediately when i do 'make' coz it didnt find 'all-am' file in each subdirectory.
2) i want to start using kdevelop for perl and c++ programming, though it does not provide a debugger for perl. still i cant make a gui, coz it complains that i havent install kdelib. but why? according to the package.txt it must be installed. so what now?
3) code name 'sid'. i realised that sid is a code in debian for unstable versions. so after installing knoppix 3.4 on my hd i am running an unstable version??? hope not. and if so...shall i use 3.4 just to be safe?
4) ./configure and make. nice but yet timeconsuming. are there already to use packages for download for debian in analogy to the simplicity in microsoft, where you download and install the stuff?
hope to find answers soon.
cheers
kev