hi,

I have only been using linux for about a week now (deb sarge) and have mostly been trying out alternative apps. I read about siag office before i left satan gates os and thought it sounded nice. Checking the package lists for the 3 deb variants i noticed that siag is listed for woody but not sarge or sid. I have completely run out of search terms to find out why this is the case. So, I am wondering if anybody here know the answer?

. -ant.

apt-cache search office

Maybe this will give you some ideas. Maybe try

apt-get install openoffice.org

micxz, thanks for answering so quickly.

?? sorry, it is siagoffice that i am after or, moreover, a reason why it disappeared from the package list between woody and sarge. Has it been absorbed by openoffice? I have looked at several office packages (OO included), my aim is to try as many as i can find before i settle on any one of them. In particular, i want to have a look at siagoffice's 'xfiler' (file manager). But mostly I want to know if there is any point persuing it, and knowing the reason it was dropped should answer this question.

. -ant.

I truth is I don't know "siag". So I just posted an alternative. Try it out. You can always uninstall.

There is an unofficial repository for version 3.5.5 available
here

My guess as to why it is not in sid or sarge would be that there is no maintainer.

taa.

i looked around after seeing comp12345's post and it seems there are a few dload sites hosting siag, only prob is that they all filed 'libMowitz0' under 'm'. lol, spent all day fuming that i couldn't get the dependancies.

as far as i can tell ulric eriksson is still maintaining it, so i doubt that is the prob. And the bug-reports filed against it seem minimal and non-critical... so i am really at a loss.

at any rate, i doubt this is something many peeps will care about so i will leave it here.

. -ant.