[Glastonbury] General purpose/must have packages

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:16:33AM -0500, Greg Browne wrote:
> Thanks Peter for your comments. (I'm running KANOTIX (A less buggy and
> easy to use version of KANOPPIX, built on Debian Sarge). I've not
> tried Xandros or Inspire)
> 
> Office - I'm downloading OO2 to see how it goes, but do find the
> instructions to make a .deb package a bit daunting. This should help
> with those old Access files.
> 
You may find OO2 is very much a development version and not yet
finished.  OO.org comes with an installer routine IIRC. I'd tend to put
it in /opt myself

> Graphics - Tried digicam, but not with a camera as yet. It doesn't
> seem to have a simple 'open file' function though.
> 
Not sure.
> Finance - gnucash looks good, thanks, but did have installation
> problems, hope it will continue to run smoothly.
> 
> Mail - Not tried Evolution as yet, but if it includes a calendar, it
> sound worth a try.
> 
> Sound - don't appear to have KINO installed. JuK and Kmix seem to be
> the standard packages, but I've not tried them.
> 
> At the moment, if they are not included with Klik, then installation
> seems rather hit and miss, but that's all part of the learning curve!!

What is your /etc/apt/sources.list like?

Andy