RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-18 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 22:13, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? Anyaway, is urpmi.removemedia safe in case I want to get rid of it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice?

RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread David Robertson
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:04, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, After an amazing 12-hours (!) download on my slow connection, I finally got my hands on the new StarOffice RPMs. I downloaded the following ones: 1) staroffice-common-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 2) staroffice-en-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 3)

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake for their fantastic work - not a way of getting

RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread David Robertson
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:59, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Spencer Anderson
On 17 Dec 2002 23:16:53 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:59, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 01:19 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install problem

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Parish
chmod will get you the right syntax. John Pisini http://www.cafecomputer.com Registered Linux User #100542 No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install

[newbie] StarOffice install

2000-02-20 Thread David van Balen
I just attempted to install StarOffice and it complained about not being able to find "libc6" (or "libc5"?) which it thinks glibc2 is going to be named... will making a symlink from glibc2 to libc5 fix this? Or do I need to install libc5? DvB

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install /usr/share -vs- /usr/local

2000-01-20 Thread RRPotratz
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thanks to all that replied. I ended up installing SO to /usr/share (someone suggested /usr/local but since I intended this to be a "network" install ...) and all seems to be happy. As a newbie I haven't quite figured out this file system thing YET and I'm

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-15 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jeffrey L Sawyer Jr wrote: | I didn't want to show how ignorant of linux or unix I am but I have to. I | downloaded StarOffice and it is in my home DIR as so51a_lnx_01.tar . I can | click on it and it opens up to show many other .tar folders. I am | using KDE and

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Matt Stegman
A .tar file is an archive, similar to a .zip file in Windows... but without compression. To extract files from it, you'd use the command `tar -xf filename.tar` If you want to see the filenames that it is extracting, put a "v" inbetween the x and f. Sometimes you'll get tar files that are

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Jeffrey L Sawyer Jr wrote: I didn't want to show how ignorant of linux or unix I am but I have to. I downloaded StarOffice and it is in my home DIR as so51a_lnx_01.tar . I can click on it and it opens up to show many other .tar folders. I am using KDE and can't figure out how to install

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Hidong Kim
Jeffrey L Sawyer Jr wrote: I didn't want to show how ignorant of linux or unix I am but I have to. I downloaded StarOffice and it is in my home DIR as so51a_lnx_01.tar . I can click on it and it opens up to show many other .tar folders. I am using KDE and can't figure out how to install

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jeffrey: Take a look at our star-linux mailing list: http://www.egroups.com/list/star-linux You might wish to consider joining. Look under group info at the top left for subscription instructions. To install StarOffice as user, open up the console or xterm (you'll find it on the KDE

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Joachim Holst
Hi Jeffry and all others ! Extract the .tar (tarball) file with 'tar xvf so51a_lnx_01.tar". This will create 2 directorys. One is called (if I remeber correct) so51install. In there is a file calles setup. Run that file with ./setup and install will start. You can also do a network install if

[newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-13 Thread Jeffrey L Sawyer Jr
I didn't want to show how ignorant of linux or unix I am but I have to. I downloaded StarOffice and it is in my home DIR as so51a_lnx_01.tar . I can click on it and it opens up to show many other .tar folders. I am using KDE and can't figure out how to install or setup StarOffice. Please

Re: [newbie] Staroffice Install... again

1999-10-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I know this topic was recently covered here, and I have read all of the posts, but I am still baffled by this instalation process... I have the Staroffice tar archive in my /home/joe directory (my user directory) and do not know how to untar it and continue

Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-20 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed

[newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-19 Thread Joe Brault
I have downloaded staroffice while logged in as the root user, and would now like to use it in my user account, but do not know how to make it available to this user. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance! Joe :)

Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-19 Thread Murray Strome
I had this same problem, and I did get a response from Star Office saying that I had to install it in the user account(s) from which I wanted to use it. Perhaps someone has a better solution, but since I did not have many accounts where it would be used, that is what I did. Joe Brault wrote:

Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Herrnberger
For multi-user installation (check the license first though) log in as root. cd to the directory where so501 directory is located then as root start the installation with ./setup /net Note the space. Install the program into say /opt/SOffice51 Then log in as user say "filbert" and cd to

Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-19 Thread Murray Strome
Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed in one user account. Chris Herrnberger wrote: For multi-user installation (check the license first though) log in as root. cd to the directory where so501 directory is located

Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Herrnberger
Murray Strome wrote: Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed in one user account. for a single user installation download the file to a /tmp directory and untar the file. It will create its own directory. Then log