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
Hi Jonathan ... I've been involved with linux for a short while, and I
am beginning to get some thigns done, I just had a bad experience a
while ago with thunderbird in Mandrake 10.1 I downloaded the rpm and
installed it from the home directory. I could never get it integrate
properly with the rest of my KDE environment. It would not open links to
webpages and I could not launch it from any of the browsers or word
processors. It is that kind of scenario that I want to avoid here.
I have now downoaded the install package (first to the Desktop, but then
transferred to Home. I then ran alien and then I did the dpkg -i install
thing. It created a directory /opt/openoffice.org1.9.188 or something
like that. It is here that I got stuck. I am told tha the pkgchk
programe is deprecated and that I should use upkg or something like that.
I tried to run the soffice.bin under the openoffice.org.../program/
directory, but either I am typing in the wrong command, or the computer
is not recognising it as a programme yet.
How will I create links to the programme files to the /usr/bin
directory? How do I get the programme onto my menu?
Sorry... for the many questions. I am really learning every day.
Thank you
Weiers
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