Re: installing Star Office 5.2
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Bob Edwards wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not .bin files. I downloaded the file directly from Sun's site, and thhere were no installation instructions. Thanks very much in advance for your help. regards, Bob Edwards -- hi bob, copy the SO*.bin file (it's a big 'un) to /tmp. cd /tmp $ ./SO* it'll walk you through the rest. hth. bentley taylor. (potato on 2.2.17) //
installing Star Office 5.2
Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not .bin files. I downloaded the file directly from Sun's site, and thhere were no installation instructions. Thanks very much in advance for your help. regards, Bob Edwards
Re: installing Star Office 5.2
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: -Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? -I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and -put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know -how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not -.bin files. - -I downloaded the file directly from Sun's site, and -thhere were no installation instructions. - -Thanks very much in advance for your help. - Make sure the file has x permissions, then as root, issue a ./so... /net (just exec the .bin file with the /net option). When asked, I would save in /usr/local/office52 but the choice is up to you. Once installed, login as user and go to /usr/local/office/programs and run (./soffice) the soffice program. This will install about 1.8MB of personal files in your home directory. Each user on your system should do this to get his/her personal files. To finally run the program just exec /home/user/office52/soffice -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
