How To Install Kingsoft Office on Cruncbang 11 ?? (can't installing)

indrabinridwan · 2014-09-26 15:02:34

How To Install Kingsoft Office on Cruncbang 11 ??

I've been following this link

http://www.noobslab.com/2013/05/microso … gsoft.html

but still can not yikes

any solution??

damo · 2014-09-26 15:07:59

You are trying to install an Ubuntu application on a Debian Crunchbang system. This is unlikely to succeed, and is very likely to break your system.

I suggest you use Ubuntu if you desperately want that particular software. But what is the problem with LibreOffice, which IS available from the repos (and is installable by running the cb-welcome script again iirc)?

ohnonot · 2014-09-27 10:29:56

use LibreOffice.

it's in your right-click menu, under "Office".

machinebacon · 2014-09-28 09:00:22

@damo: Packaged for Ubuntu only? That would be new to me. Reference maybe?

I don't want to talk for the OP, but I absolutely love WPS for being 99% compatible with doc/docx files, in opening and saving these without losing formatting, and being notably quicker and lighter on 32-bit. It does not beat Softmaker's FreeOffice, though (http://www.freeoffice.com/) -- the latter being even more proprietary (and closed source) than WPS.

@OP: I have been using WPS on Debian sid for a few months without problems, but haven't tried to install it in Debian stable.
But I have installed it right now on a freshly installed Sid like this:

wget http://kdl.cc.ksosoft.com/wps-community/download/a15/wps-office_9.1.0.4751~a15_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wps-office_9.1.0.4751~a15_i386.deb
# <wait a minute>
# it prints out what packages are missing (for me it was libglu1-mesa)
sudo apt-get install -f
# <wait a few seconds>

Optionally install the fonts and symbols package, though it is not necessary.

These steps create an executable called wps for the writer, et for the spreadsheet and wpp for the presentation software.

Everybody has his right and freedom to install the piece of software he likes.

Last edited by machinebacon (2014-09-28 09:09:27)

damo · 2014-09-28 09:23:59

^MB

My bad, I just saw the "To install in Ubuntu" bit, and didn't investigate further ops

stevenbhardwaj · 2014-09-30 11:55:51

Hi, All,

I got Kingsoft / WPS working on my computer. I think this follows-up on machinebacon's comment that he didn't know how it would run on debian stable.

I'm running CrunchBang 11 waldorf, 64-bit:
uname -a
Linux (computername) 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I got it working with the following sequence:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office_9.1.0.4111~a11p2_i386.deb
wps # run Kingsoft Writer
wpp # run Kingsoft Presentation
et # run Kingsoft Spreadsheets

Sources:
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-kingso … nd-debian/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2003 … eezy-amd64
EDIT http://wps-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8
I installed WPS hoping it may have soome additional Chinese language functionality, like spreadsheet text functions for chinese characters, but I can't report on that yet b/c I just got it installed.

BTW I'm a 6-month linux n00b and this is my first post that looks like it's *gasp* contributing.

Cheers
-Steven

Last edited by stevenbhardwaj (2014-09-30 12:01:57)

ohnonot · 2014-09-30 12:28:56

stevenbhardwaj wrote:

BTW I'm a 6-month linux n00b and this is my first post that looks like it's *gasp* contributing.

it certainly is.

i've read about kingsoft office every now and then here and there for years, but never felt a compelling need to use it.
why would someone prefer it over, say, libreoffice? is it FOSS?

[ quick search... hmm, 169 votes on the arch user repository, not bad. maybe i shoud just try it... ]

stevenbhardwaj · 2014-09-30 13:04:12

@ohnonot Thanks! Hmmm... definitely not FOSS. They have some kind of "community license" which I should read:
http://wps-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=595
http://wps-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=596

So it's certainly imperfect from the licensing standpoint. I hope it has at least enough openness to ensure security... perhaps unlikely.

But here's the reason why I put it in my toolbox for now:

chinese character cell function

The MID() function works correctly in this screenshot from WPS, pulling the first Chinese character from the string. Unfortunately, LibreOffice (which will certainly remain my primary axe) did not function as I wanted in this case, pulling a nonsense symbol into cell C2 instead of the character 所. (EDIT: See subsequent post: I got this working in LibreOffice)

EDIT: But I'm finding that somehow LibreOffice has more robust font support. It's like, if the designated font in a LibreOffice document doesn't have a particular obscure symbol, it'll find that symbol in some other font and display the symbol in the non-designated font anyway. Meanwhile I have a bunch of obscure non-displaying symbols in WPS that I have no idea what font to use to display them. So right now I'm just using WPS as a spreadsheet text-processing tool for Chinese. But it'll be a good learning process.

Last edited by stevenbhardwaj (2014-10-07 10:22:00)

ohnonot · 2014-09-30 18:42:28

i see.

i, too, have a language issue - i need spell-checking support for finnish - and i got it for libreoffice after following step-by-step instructions from arch wiki, bless her.

no, there's no problem, i'm just comparing. we will see whether kingsoft office has something to offer. if i can accept the unclear licensing.

it seems to have a reputation for being "the closest you can get to MS Office", at least on linux.
not sure if i need that or if it's even something good.

i got it installed and it works well enough.
startup is very fast, but dropdown menus are curiously slow.

stevenbhardwaj · 2014-10-07 10:29:19

I fixed my language issue in LibreOffice. Didn't slog through forums, I just bumped into this dialog box under options on accident:

I put a check in the "enhanced language support" box, and then changed the language to Chinese, and that fixed my issue. So now the MID() function works fine for Chinese characters. Hurrah for FOSS!

Last edited by stevenbhardwaj (2014-10-07 10:39:19)

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