You type tar vxf star_office.tar, then, in the dirtectory that has been extracted, you should find a script called setup. You run it by typing ./setup. On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Chris Ennest wrote: >Hi, > i just downloaded the star office suite in a tar format. Could someone please > tell me how to get it out of tar format and how to install it....i saved the > file as star_office.tar if that helps. > This is the first thing i have done with my linux machine hopefully you guys > and gals can help me out. Thanks in advance. >