[KLUG Members] recommended office suite

[bill]

Bruce Smith wrote:

> > /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> > none on /proc type proc (rw)
> >
> > and several other similar lines.
>
> Is there a line for /home ?

Not that I can see.

> 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).

Plenty of space, 30 gig, new workstation install

> > 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

-rwxrwxrwx, 110159 bytes  etc. (I had chmod -ed it to 777)

>  md5sum setup

ee1258a9653f08a17ca27c5b44bdff04

>  ldd setup

not a dynamic executable  (well, that doesn't sound good)

> And post the results.
>
> BTW, it is OO version 1.0.1, right???

yes.