> I did notice the cd is slightly scratched (courtesy of my four-year-old > daughter). Is this the trouble? Should I download a tarred file or RPM of > Star Office from the web, and try to install it that way, or should I just > forget the whole thing? I hope this question isn't too stupid - I'm only > just starting to learn this system. Thanks in advance for any help. That, I think would be a good idea. Perhaps the scratch on the cd causes a read error which goes by unnoticed by Linux. Getting a new, clean file would be the best way to proceed, imho. Either tar.gz or RPM, whatever suits you best. I don't know if you can find out the md5sum for the staroffice rpm. If so, you can try and check that with the official checksum. That might already tell something. Paul
