On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:53:16 -0500 Ryan Hayle <hackel at walkingfish.com> wrote: > apt-get install openoffice.org. Couldn't be simpler. No monkey > business. > > Even if you're not lucky enough to have a debian-based distro, I'm > sure those redhat kiddies have something similar you can use instead > of compiling the source... > Bah! Compiling from source is nothing on Open Office... Get the source, install from source, feel the exposure to source, gain experience! =) It's not hard to install from source at all. IIRC, all you need to do: -download it (which you've already done) -mv it to a directory. I prefer to put it in /usr/local/src -tar zxvf OO tar.gz file -cd into source directory (usr/local/src/OpenOffice....) - run ./install -net (ya want this because then it's only a couple of megs in your home directory for each user) as root -su or login as non root user who will use this -run /usr/local/src/OpenOffice.../setup Follow the prompts. Simple enough. I haven't installed it in a while, but it's definately not hard. =) -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list