David,
I installed Star Office 5.1 successfully from a CD-ROM yesterday, so
perhaps I can help you out. I installed is as a single user
installation, so if you want a network installation or something else
maybe someone else will help out. First of all are you shure you
downloaded the version for Linux? It could be in a zip file, but I
would have expected a .tar.
Here are your steps:
1. Log in as a regular user (not root)
2. Start X-Windows -- unless it starts automatically. (either the Gnome
or K Desktop environments should work -- I have KDE)
3. OK, you don't need to worry about the "SETUP.BIN", you need a file
simply called "setup". It's a script, as if you needed to know. If the
downloaded files are like the CDROM, it will be in the /linux/office51
directory of the directory where you unzipped the archive.
If you have KDE, try it this way: click the K Button>Disk
Navigator>Home>The Directory Where you Unzipped>linux>office51 then
press Shift while you click on "Open Folder" at the top of the menu.
This will open a terminal window already in the right directory.
If you don't have KDE, you'll need to use a terminal emulator and cd to
this directory before proceeding.
4. Last step: type "./setup"
That worked for me. Hope it helps you out. I'm a nebiew as well and
didn't do this the first time. KDE locked up with my initial attempt
(clicking on the "setup" file), but the installation only took about 4
minutes when I used these steps.
Jeremy Kersenbrock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
>
> --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well,
> here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took
> me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT
> exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it
> unzipped. I opened the setup.zip file with karchiver and unzipped to a
> directory in my /home directory I ended up with 40 files in a so51
> directory. At the bottom of the heap is a SETUP.BIN (exe. gear) . I have
> set permissions but the gear does nothing. In fact none of the files do
> anything. Now, before the flames roll in, let me just say this. I have
> succesfully installed both rpm's and tar's on this system. Also I did read
> the .pdf file that came with the download, and it was of absolutely no
> help. I also would like to point out that I have not been able to make SO
> work since version 4.0. I keep trying because if us Linux users didn't
> like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten
> this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies
> out there, unwilling to concede.
>
> David P. Greenberg
> Bitco Electronics
> "In Service to the Recording Industry"
> *Confirmed Linux Newbie*
> **Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
> Teach him how to fish, and
> he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
