Re: Installing OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite

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

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 21:28, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:55:07AM +1000, 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
> 
> Well, you don't really mean "unzip", as the tar file has not been
> zipped (that is to say you will frequently find tar files that have
> been gzipped (no relationship whatsoever with WinZip), and have a file
> extension of .tar.gz or .tgz).  To untar the file, just
> 
>  tar xvf <path_to>/OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar
> 
> "x" to extract, "v" to be verbose (report every file, optional), "f"
> says, filename follows.  But first, I would get a table of contents to
> see what directories (if any) it's going to create:

It unpacks one directory named install
Run setup in that dir and it will prompt you where to install the
application.

> 
>  tar tf <path_to>/OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar
> 
> because you might want to be in a different directory when you do it.
> 
> "man tar" for more information.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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> Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.
>