Hello Larry, On Friday 16 October 2009, 20:33, larrydlefever wrote: > Here's the command I used to download the OO SDK: > > sudo axel > http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.1.1/OOo-SDK_3.1.1_Li > nuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh > > I presumed the result would be a tarball containing a deb file; or just > directly a deb file. > > However, after having confirmed it is a binary file of some kind (by > cat'ing it), I tried to untar it but tar said first that it's not gzipped, > then that it's not a tar file. Then, dpkg said it's not a deb file. > > Is my use of axel the problem. Did it corrupt the download. Can't > investigate further right now. Any feedback would be much appreciated. > > Thanks.
for me, this works: download that file to a folder, and as a simple user, with no root privileges do the following: make that file executable ]$ chmod +x OOo-SDK_3.1.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh execute the file ]$ ./OOo-SDK_3.1.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh you will be prompted for a folder to extract the deb file, the default just worked fine: ]$ ./OOo-SDK_3.1.1_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.sh Select the directory in which to save the unpacked files. [/var/tmp/unpack_openofficeorg] File is being checked for errors ... Unpacking ... All files have been successfully unpacked. ]$ ls -l /var/tmp/unpack_openofficeorg/DEBS/ total 8640 -rw-r--r--. 1 ariel ariel 8840098 ago 19 08:44 ooobasis3.1- sdk_3.1.1-19_amd64.deb Now cd to the folder where the file was unpacked, and ]$ sudo dpkg -i ooobasis3.1-sdk_3.1.1-19_amd64.deb will install the SDK. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
