[clue-tech] how much room?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 22 November 2008 01:35:53 am David L. Willson wrote:
> My system says this:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install kivio
> [sudo] password for dlwillson:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kivio-data koffice-data koffice-libs
> latex-xft-fonts libarts1c2a libavahi-qt3-1 liblua50 liblualib50 libqt3-mt
> libruby1.8 ruby ruby1.8 Suggested packages:
>   perl-suid wordnet tetex-extra libarts1-akode libqt3-mt-mysql
> libqt3-mt-odbc libqt3-mt-psql ruby1.8-examples rdoc1.8 ri1.8 The following
> NEW packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kivio kivio-data koffice-data koffice-libs
> latex-xft-fonts libarts1c2a libavahi-qt3-1 liblua50 liblualib50 libqt3-mt
> libruby1.8 ruby ruby1.8 0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0
> not upgraded.
> Need to get 28.0MB of archives.
> After this operation, 98.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
> So ... sort of.  It does want koffice-libs, but not all of koffice.  I'm
> going for it.  What else am I going to spend the disk space on?

Hmm.   Sounds more and more worth a look,  for me.  :-)

Of course,  OO has a "draw" program I haven't looked at yet...

Too much software and never enough time!

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
> To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:47:14 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] how much room?
>
> On Friday 21 November 2008 01:10:46 pm David L. Willson wrote:
> > I forgot to mention Kivio.  Kivio.  There, I said it.
>
> Looks like it might be handy,  but wikipedia tells me that's a component of
> koffice,  which I'd given up on some time back,  and haven't installed in
> ages,  after finding that their word replacement wasn't coping well with a
> number of the doc files I was trying to read.  So these days I use
> openoffice instead.  I haven't looked to see if they have a similar app, 
> but in case they don't,  will that install without the whole office package
> being installed as well?



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