[lug] Installing Software Packages

[Bob Collins]

If it is like all the other StarOffice CDs I have installed
from,  Mount the cd; Change directory to Linux; read the
README file.  That should answer all your questions.

I haven't had to do it for a long time, but in the past I
have had to mount the cd so you can execute as non root.

Charlie Rose wrote:
> 
> Gentlefolk ....  Newbie speaking!
> 
> Here I am, trying to install StarOffice 6.0 on my Mandrake
> 9.0 system, and I'm totally baffled. I don't know how to
> install a software package with Linux.
> 
> I went to /mnt/cdrom/linux/office60 (in the GUI), and saw
> a bunch of files which included one named "setup" that was
> identified as an executable. To me, running setup would
> have installed the package ... only, by clicking or
> double-clicking it, it wouldn't run.
> 
> The documentation said that I should "open the CD-ROM with
> execute rights". Well, /cdrom has rwxrwxrwx privileges
> automatically, so I don't know what the documentation is
> talking about. Incidentally, /mnt/cdrom/linux has
> r-xr-xr-x, /mnt/cdrom/linux/office60 has r-xr-xr-x, and
> most all the files therein have r--r--r-- privs except for
> setup which has r-xr-xr-x.
> 
> The documentation also says that I can copy the
> /linux/office60 files to a temporary directory on my hard
> drive, and install from there. From
> /mnt/cdrom/linux/office60, I did a cp * /home/charlie/tmp.
> Almost all the files got copied. I can see those that
> didn't go in the GUI file list in Konqueror, but when I
> try to copy these files, I'm told they don't exist. As a
> matter of fact, as I navigate around the CD, directories
> keep disappearing on me.
> 
> I've looked in the Linux books I have, but none of them
> tell me how to install commercial software packages. If
> any of you would like to hold my hand a bit, or point me
> to a good reference, I'd really appreciate it!
> 
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