On Tue January 31 2006 19:46, + Allen, Anthony wrote: > Greetings: > > I am using Open Office vers 2.0, Windoz > > When I try to insert a sheet from a file, so I can plot the data. > It does nothing. > > With an open blank spreadsheet: > > Insert-->Sheet from file---> from dialogue box I pick a text file. > ---> hit insert button. And nothing happens. > > This is an important function ,I need this so I can plot numeric data. > The older versions do this ok. > > By the way, do you have a version of openoffice that is not in rpm > format for linux? > I would like to use vers 2 on linux, but I need root to do this. (at > work) > And it is a pain to get the administrators to do it.
On Wed February 1 2006 02:14, Terry North wrote: > > this. (at work) .... > > This is from the Setup Guide and has been used successfully by a user on > one of the forums who also did not have root privileges: > > Installation on Other UNIX systems > If you have a UNIX distribution that does not have an up-to-date rpm or you > are unsure that you system is current and rpm installation is failing, then > try the following: > .... > b) Get and use rpm2cpio to convert the rpm files to cpio archives and then > employ cpio to install the software. There is a perl version of rpm2cpio at > http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio that should be portable. However, if > it fails, try precompiled rpm-package (including rpm2cpio) from > ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/rpm-4.1.i386.tar.gz > or get the sources from > ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/rpm-4.1.tar.gz > c) Install any language packs needed for OpenOffice.org. > -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
