I'm not quite as green as this scenario implies but I'm green enough to be very 
dangerous to myself.

=== Start of scenario ===

On my SuSE 9.3 system I formerly had OpenOffice.org 2.0 Novell Edition build 
2.0.0.1. According to what I've read on this list I know that I need to 
uninstall that before I can properly install OOo version 2.0.3 so I did that.

Alright now, I have used the p2p interface to download OOo v2.0.3 for Linux. It 
gave me file:

OOo_2.0.3_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz 

I make an intelligent(?) guess that I need to extract it so from my KDE desktop 
I manage to find how to "Extract here..." which creates a directory named:

OOC680_m7_native_packed-1_en-US.9044

Looking into that directory I find first of all that it contains a sub-
directory named readmes which I guess contains files to be read before I go any 
further. So I open that sub-directory and find two files which I presume 
contain the same information in different formats. They are:

README_en-US
README_en-US.html

I choose to read the text file. On the twelfth line of that file I read the 
following:

For latest updates to this readme file, see 
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/readme.html

Upon going to that page on the web I find that OOo requires some version of 
Windows. Bummer! I don't believe that. What else am I to not believe?

Anyway, I look through both the page on the web and the text file and it tells 
me nothing about the process of installing this product. It's mostly filled 
with a solicitation for help with the project. Ok, I decide to look at the RPMS 
sub-directory and I see 26 rpm files and one more subdirectory which contains 
one deb file and four more rpm files. I see no instructions as to what to do 
with any of these files.

Now what????? Is there a missing document someplace? There has to be!

=== End of scenario ===

I know from past experience that there is an installation document that answers 
these questions. I just don't recall where to look for it.

-- 
Jim

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