[KLUG Members] recommended office suite

[Bruce Smith]

> The tar.gz file was actually downloaded right to a directory (/home/username) and
> extracted from there, no CD involved (heck, I haven't even opened the CD since
> installing Linux).
> 
> mount doesn't say anything about noexec, just
> 
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> 
> and several other similar lines.

Is there a line for /home ?

Doesn't really matter.  That's not your problem if "noexec" doesn't
appear anywhere.

> But, let's assume the worst.  What's the proper place to d/l the open office suite?

Any partition with the exec option that has enough space.
/home is fine (space permitting).

> I figured that if it was a tar.gz file it was the Linux version (as opposed to a
> windows .zip), but assumptions are tricky things . . .

If the file name ended in a  *.tar.gz  or  .tgz  then it was a gzip
compressed tar file.

Go to the directory with the setup command, and do:

 ls -l setup
 md5sum setup
 ldd setup

And post the results.

BTW, it is OO version 1.0.1, right???

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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