On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:49, Hanan Z. AL-Shargi wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know if Star Office comes in RPM format ? > if not, then would someone please tell me ( in steps) how to install it > ? I'm a newbie ( as I'm still posting here in this list :-) ) and have > never installed any thing other than RPM's !!
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm but I think that may be a little dated. But really, installing either OpenOffice or StarOffice from the installation binary is about as hard as clicking on install.exe in a windows system. You should not need to install either from source. 1. go to www.openoffice.org 2. follow instructions there to download install641_linux_intel.tar.gz 2a. Go make several cups of coffee - this is a big file! 3. Open a terminal and use cd to go to the directory where you downloaded the file , for example cd /home/a_user/downloads <ENTER> 4. untar and gunzip the file (use the winzip-like kab application if you like, otherwise just use tar -xvzf install641_linux_intel.tar.gz <ENTER> from the command line, without the quotes of course). A directory called "install" with lots of files in it will be formed. cd to it: cd install <ENTER> 5 Now run the command ./setup <ENTER> 6. Follow the on-screen instructions -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd
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