Installing OpenOffice

[Samuel Flory]

rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:

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>tar -jxf OOo_1.0.0_LinuxPPC_install_en-US.tar.bz2
>cd OOo_1.0.0_LinuxPPC_install_en-US
>chown -R root:root ./    # (or as your own userid)
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>I have no idea what this means.  I suspect that there are also steps that need to 
>be done before executing the first command (tar -jxf 
>OOo_1.0.0_LinuxPPC_install_en-US.tar.bz2).  I have opened a Konsole window, and 
>tried to execute the first command, but I get error messages.  Also, the third 
>command listed above is not clear to me.  
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>Could someone break all of this down into simpler steps for me?  Indeed the file 
>(OOo_1.0.0_LinuxPPC_install_en-US.tar.bz2) is on the YDL extras CD.  What next?
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  In theroy it should be like this.

-Cd to your home directory
`cd`
-mount the extras cdrom
`mount /mnt/cdrom`
-extract the tarfile
tar -jxvf /mnt/cdrom/{whatever the path to the 
OOo_1.0.0_LinuxPPC_install_en-US.tar.bz2 file is}
-cd into the newly created directory
`cd OOo_1.0.0_LinuxPPC_install_en-US`
-change ownership to your user.  The example below uses root.  If you 
aren't replace root with your user name.
`chown -R root:root .`
-continue as normal (As I remember the next step is to run the setup 
binary.)

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