when you download the mac version you fin ish up with a .dmg file (a
disk image). Your web browser (I am guessing Safari) will open that
disk image and create the Hard Drive icon you saw, from there you
drag the application to your Applications folder -- or anywhere else
you would like it and the installation is complete. Open Office.org
2.0 require that you have Apple's X11 software installed before it
will run which is where I assume you install is failing -- you can do
a custom install from your OSX CD -- and just install X11 or goto to
www.neooffice.org and download the much more mac like version that
will run without X11.
To reclaim your Hard drive space you need to
1) Delete the Open Office.org Application
2) Delete the .dmg file
3) Delete the .bz2 file that you downloaded.
4) EMPTY THE TRASH
And after OS 9 you do need extensions on Mac file name to associate
them with application just like windows user do -- just the mac hides
it a little better -- if you rename an Xpress file with a .xls
extension it will try to open it in Excel!
Hope that helps
Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
441 Beaver Street
Suite 202
Sewickley, PA 15143
Phone (412) 749-0162
Fax: (412) 749-0203
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.spitcomp.com
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HELP
I downlaoded Open Office 2.0 at the weekend, to my Mac (OSX
10.3.5). It took
ages. Hours and hours. When it finally 'arrived', it appeared as a
desktop
icon resembling a hard drive. I also downloaded some .sxw files.
When I tried
to open one - nothing, nada, zilch. Except for 'Open Office'
appearing in the
finder menu bar, but with only 2 menu options - File, and Edit,
neither of
which was accessible, with options greyed out. So I couldn't
access/read the
files either. I checked the web site for info, and tried using advice
therein. Then 'if it doesn't work' (it didn't)I then tried finding
tghe files
indicated. There were no 'libdl' files to be found. (What do I
want with
file xtensions? I run a Mac. The downladed installer did nothing.
That isn't even the worst part. I deleted the agonisingly difficult
downloads. The huge space taken up by the downloaded software wasn't
recovered. (It used more than 3 GB.)
I tried a clean reinstall. No joy - except that I appear to have
lost all of
my data, some of which I felt sure I didn't need to back up. (I
did, of
course.)
I am still short of all that HD space. My OS is still virtually
inoperable.
(Not OOo's fault I grant you, but while I'm whinging ...)
And ...
I have already successfully downloaded OOo 2.0 to my PC (Win XP
pro.) and used
it. No probs at all. But I'm having to send this missive on the
PC and not
my mac because .... Enough! Sorry.
Any idea what happened?
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