On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:24, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > Ok I went to Dhruv's place, and he's given me mandrake 8.2 and another CD > with KDE 3 and Openoffice 1. Now the prob is: > > 1) there is a whole lot of kde3 rpms. in which order do i install them ? > > 2) the openoffice is in tar.gz format. how do i install it? >
1. just enter the rpm folder and do a "rpm -Uvh *rpm". don't need to bother about the order. rpm will take care of that. 2. the vanilla version of openoffice sometimes has compatibility problems with mandrake, specially regarding opentype (or is it called freetype?) fonts or something. i don't have first-hand experience about this; i learnt it from siddhartha. so if you're using mandrake, it may be best to get the mandrake rpm, which installs and works like a charm, being specially customized for your system. no dependency problems with that. however, if you decide to go ahead with the tarball, follow the steps: $ cd /opt $ tar -zxf </path/to/openoffice/tarball> $ cd <name-of-directory-just-created> i'm not familiar with the openoffice tarball, but the generic method after this is $ ./configure $ make $ make install it is best first to read the "readme" or "install" instruction files that you're sure to find inside the directory, and see if it recommends anything else. after it's done, you can usually safely remove the compile directory (in this case /opt/openoffice.org-xxx). but again, consult the instructions from the tarball to see if this is recommended. - t. -- cogito, ergo es. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
