Open Office - installation problem

[Terry L. Tyson Jr.]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2
> 
> I encountered following problem on installing OOo
> 
> OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz
> was download to /usr/home/user/Download
> 
> $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/
> checked md5 OK
> 
> $ ls -al
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel  73105915 Apr 17 18:11
> OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz
> ....
> 
> $ su -
> password
> 
> # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz
> pkg_add: can't stat package file
> 'OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz'
> 
> Kindly advise what mistake I have committed.
> 
> TIA
> 
> B.R.
> satimis

Stephen,

It's not a package, it's a tgz file. Use "tar xzvf file.tgz". Go to the
OO site and read the install instructions, there are other things you
need to do beside untar the file.

--
Terry

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