On Sun, 2005-07-08 at 18:22 +0000, Prof J C Nash wrote:
I apparently failed to make clear that my wish is to have an executable of Gnumeric (and other Gnome stuff too) that can be run from CD or USB. I've remastered Knoppix once (see www.telltable.com), but that is a very different situation since one reboots. I'm looking to plug in a USB and run Gnumeric on a "foreign" system without installing it. Some Win apps and some Linux ones can be run this way, but I'm not familiar with the requirements for so doing. Truthfully, there could be obstacles that render this idea infeasible, but clearly it could make it much easier to "show and tell" and also to get folk trying good applications.
At lewast under linux, since you could install virtually all of gnome + gtk + other needed stuff in your home directory I don't see any technical reasons why you could not build gnumeric + gnome+ gtk + ... in such a way that all required stuff fits inside a directory structure on a CD. Personally I think showing off gnumeric ought to be done within a proper linux environment and desktop so I fail to see the problem with rebooting the system using a knoppix or gnoppix or other live cd. Yes, I know that gnumeric is (unfortunately) also available for MS Windows.. Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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