En/La Weiers Coetser ha escrit, a 20/07/05 22:56: <snip> >> > Thank you very much Jonathan. Just a very basic question, the answer of > which I wish I could understand once and for all. When I unzip the file > and turn it into a .deb file. Where should I place this file in order to > install it correctly. Do I do this in the /home directory or under > /usr/bin ? In windows I know that all programmes will automatically > install into the c:/program files directory. Linux seems to have more > options? I just want to do the install so that it is most integrated in > the sytem. > > Thanks again
Sorry Weiers, I didn't realise you were new to Linux. Rule 1. Forget everything about windows. Rule 2. Windows executables will NOT run on Linux except in special circumstances which you don't want to know about at this point (Wine, etc.). Ok you need to download the linux version which is a tarball, a file ending in tar.gz You do NOT want a zip file. You go to the open office page (if you do this with, say, Firefox, Openoffice recognises your system and will be present you with the Linux options. Otherwise go to the downloads page (the beta page if you want version 1.9.118 and download the tarball to your /tmp folder. As user go to the /tmp folder and run tar zxvf OOo_1.9.118_Linuxintel_rpm_install.tar.gz Doing this will create a /RPMS folder with all the rpm files in it. cd into the /RPMS folder and follow the instruction that I sent in a previous posting (by link). You need to have installed alien. If you don't have alien you need to do as root #apt-get install alien first and then carry on. Let me know if this is clear. Cheers, Jonathan -- Please don't cc: your posting to my personal address. Thank you.
