On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well,
> here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took
> me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT
> exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it
> unzipped. I opened the setup.zip file with karchiver and unzipped to a
> directory in my /home directory I ended up with 40 files in a so51
> directory. At the bottom of the heap is a SETUP.BIN (exe. gear) . I have
> set permissions but the gear does nothing. In fact none of the files do
> anything. Now, before the flames roll in, let me just say this. I have
> succesfully installed both rpm's and tar's on this system. Also I did read
> the .pdf file that came with the download, and it was of absolutely no
> help. I also would like to point out that I have not been able to make SO
> work since version 4.0. I keep trying because if us Linux users didn't
> like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten
> this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies
> out there, unwilling to concede.
>
Hmm...are you sure you got the Linux version??? I
downloaded it (at 128k, mind) and unzipped it to a
directory and installed it just fine....didn't even bother
reading the docs... :-) I just did as you did, and ran the
"setup" file. I just checked my local copy on my work
machine. There's two directories created: a /documentation
and an /office51 directory. Under the /office51 directory
are a bunch of installation files ("cab" type files????)
and a "setup" executeable. That was what I ran....
John
