Hi Timothy, Why not use the .deb with the staroffice tarballs in /tmp?
--------------------------------------------------- Package: staroffice3 Version: 3.1-4 Maintainer: Martin Schulze Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.4-0) Filename: dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386/editors/staroffice3_3.1-4 .deb Size: 22054 Description: Star Office 3.1 installer Star Office 3.1 is a suite of office productivity applications containing the following [..snip..] The StarOffice 3.1 binaries can be found in ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linu x/staroffice/ They need to be placed in /tmp or $TMP respectively. ---------------------------------------------------- Also, StarOffice 4.0 should be released by months end (that's when the current beta expires), and hopefully it will have English menus. It's considerably faster than StarOffice 3.1(static), looks like Office97. If you like all those features, it's very impressive, installs very cleanly with it's own installation script, and you can specify the directory. If you can't read German and want to try out the German StarOffice 4.0 Linux Beta, I have a webpage which outlines the procedure for getting that going: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/staroffice.html Regarding space, the staroffice install lets you select individual components if you choose the custom install method. I think the minimum required space is around 30MB. As mentioned, a symlink from /opt to /usr/opt also works. Have fun! :-) -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .