You are right on track,
just "tar -xvzf so51a_lnxfoo.foo.tar"
then cd to the directory it creates and, I forgot, but
the documentation is good and the install is painless,
does it all for you. Best of luck. Here's this.. same
as I was saying, including the part I forgot ;)
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/staroffice.html
Sean
--- "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Otay, I D/L'd the tarball and finally got the
> darned thing
> unzipped, printed out the readme file and surprise,
> surprise,
> surprise I don't have a clue WHERE I'm supposed to
> install this
> thing.
>
> The plan is to do a network install and then do the
> required
> workstation installs. Do I simply copy the tarball
> to a /tmp
> directory, "untar" it and run the install from the
> sub-folder
> that it creates or is this supposed to be placed in
> a particular
> directory. This would be the first application
> software I'll
> have installed like this and it has me concerned
> that it has such
> poor information included. Perhaps this is obvious
> to a seasoned
> user but to the newbie it makes NO sense at all.
> What then do
> I do with the /tmp files?? I suppose it would make
> sense to keep
> the tarball in a separate safe folder but I don't
> know what to do
> with the untared files.
>
> I am currently using LM 6.1 and am also wondering
> about the
> references to Glibc2 (?) do I need to install them (
> I know
> follow the instructions but it would be nice to have
> someone
> confirm my results.)
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe Gardner
>
>
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