On Monday 02 April 2001 18:52, you wrote: If you are using Madrake 7.2, make sure you logged is as the Root (when you first come into the system it asks you for login and password. click on DrakConf (on your desktop, usually top of screen) click on Package manager (bottom of screen after DrakConf opens) It will load al the rpm packages available to you You can search through them manually or type Star in the search field and it will list them, the staroffice-en is english version, -fr is the french etc etc Then click the box next to the one you want, make sure it puts a check mark in the box Click on Install selected (up top, big red circle icon) and your pretty much done. If you don't have Mandrake then ya gotta do the terminal stuff listed by Anthony. Good Luck. > > 1- Install Star Office that comes with CD-3 (extras). General question is > > how to install applications from CD driver. > > To install Star Office, just go to the cdrom directory, usually /mnt/cdrom, > and find a file named "setup" in there somewhere. Then type "./setup -net" > from the command line in the directory that setup is located in. That'll > setup a multiuser Star Office installation. > > To install a general application, most of those will be in .rpm format. So > to install those, once again go to /mnt/cdrom and then make your way to the > directory that holds the rpm file you want to install. Then type "rpm -Uvh > the_rpm_file.rpm" as root. > > > 2- Access diskete driver, open a MS Word97 doc file, edit and save it > > as Star Office similar application file. General question is how to > > save/open a file on diskette. > > Once you're in Star Office, click on "Open" and go to the /mnt/floppy > directory, that is where you'll find all your files on your floppy disk. > > If you need more detailed explanations or you're confused by something, > just reply back to the list.
