Re: Installing OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite

["Scott A. Zanke" <szanke directvinternet com>]

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 20:55, Lucas, Peter (Adecco) wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> I have a tar file (OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar) and would like to
> install the office suite. Can I just double click the file in file manager
> (Linux 6.2) and it installs itself? Is there a process to unzip a tar file
> in LInux?
> 
> Pete
Pete,
Are you sure this isn't a tar.gz file?
After you unpack it, cd to the dir and ./setup to start the install.
In order to get java support you will have to point the installer to the
java dir when prompted. You might want to d/l the latest jre from Sun if
that's important to you.

Scott