[lug] Installing Software Packages

[Brian Rodriguez]

OK, I should read more carefully first. You said StarOffice and I read 
OpenOffice. See what the other guy said about the README. I have 
installed StarOffice before off the CD and there didn't seem to be any 
trick to it. If all else fails, read the instructions (or the e-mail you 
are repsonding to)

Brian


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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