On Thursday 19 May 2005 12:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have downloaded a file to optain Open Office. I did not have an > unzip utility so I downloaded Unzip to open it. I get a message > that it will not work. The file I downloaded is > OOo_1.9.100-1_src.tar. Is this the correct file to get Open Office > and if so what may be wrong that is won't open up and make itself > available. I followed the instructions on the installation sheet. > Please help. Terry Edwardson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you
You grabbed the wrong file unless you want to build it from scratch. You should have grabbed -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104424380 May 15 09:50 OOo_1.9.100_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz Pick or make a new dir, and unpack it. That will give you some 6 or so rpms. They will install in /opt/openoffice.org1.9.100/* when you run 'rpm -Uvh OOo*i386.rpm', which it did here with no further adeiu. Click on a blank spot on an xwindow, choose add link, select the butterfly logo, and select as the executable: /opt/openoffice.org1.9.100/soffice, rename the icon to OOo1.9.100 (first screen) and save. Clicking on it which will open the registration screen. When thats done, its ready to do as you want. Its all free, so the next action is up to you. It will need jre1.5.0 for your Operating System also, which is also a free download from sun.com. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
