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[bill]

Ah, it's the colossal errors that make the best stories.

For OpenOffice, there is a Windows version, a Solaris version, and -two- Linux
versions.

I went to a different site and downloaded the tar.gz again.  Funny how it didn't
ask to overwrite the file.  Upon investigation I discovered it had a slightly
different name.  The names are listed below for your amusement and edification:

OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxPPC_installer.tar.gz
OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxIntel_installer.tar.gz

Hmmm, if the new one is called "Intel" then the other one must have something to
do with the processor.  What could PPC be, I wonder?  A Mac?  No, that would be
called Motorola.  But, what does Mac call their computers nowadays?  .... All
together now: Power PC!

With a little work, the install has now been successful.  There are actually two
installs.  A preliminary one and one for each user.

And they say only tech support callers make the best stories,

kind regards and with much thanks to Bruce,

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.
>
> Okay, then /home is part of your root partition.  Not a problem.
>
> > >  ls -l setup
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx, 110159 bytes  etc. (I had chmod -ed it to 777)
>
> Mine is 101628 bytes.
>
> > >  md5sum setup
> >
> > ee1258a9653f08a17ca27c5b44bdff04
>
> Mine is different:
>
> 8477682ccfc75a26a1aaf3d4dd75c38d
>
> > >  ldd setup
> >
> > not a dynamic executable  (well, that doesn't sound good)
>
> May be corrupt.
>
> > > And post the results.
> > >
> > > BTW, it is OO version 1.0.1, right???
> >
> > yes.
>
> Mine too.
>
> Did tar give you any errors when you untar'ed it?
> Or does "tar tvzf file.tgz" give any errors?
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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