I am a Linux home USER. Fedora Core 3 was installed on my computer about 3 years ago by a Linux deity who has left town. Not bad for 3 years with no support or upgrades. But anyways, I had good memories of installing and running StarOffice all by myself: I downloaded a single RPM file, double-clicked it and after a nice Whack-a-Mole** install you had an office suite that --Worked-- (okay, it wasn't WYSIWYG with MSWord, and it wouldn't handle MS checkboxes, but I survived...)
**Whack-a-Mole install. You barely have to read any prompts; they might all have read "Are you using a Computer" [Yes]/[No.] Gawd I loved that, and more experiences like that are SORELY needed in Linux. Anyways, I just downloaded Open Office 2.0 onto the machine running Fedora Core 3. Then I used the KDE graphical file manager to unpack the tar-ball, and so now I have a directory full of RPM's with a subdirectory full of six RPMs that seem to list one for each of six distributions. But in the KDE file mangler, I double-click an RPM and KDE under Fedora just keeps opening files in the RPM. (Like viewing the contents of a ZIP file.) Can anyone explain how to get the install going? PS you should have a Linux equivalent of an Install.exe take care of all this for us non-tech folks. - GLL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where Speed & Service Have Always Mattered @ http://www.ados.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
