Tar command and OpenOffice 1.1 question

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
> - snip -
> 
> > I am presuming you have downloaded the appropriate binary install
> > from Openoffice.
> > Put the file in /usr/local
> > Do not unroll the file with tar
> > and run  psk-add on it    pkg-add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
> >
> > During the process it will ask where you want to install it and you
> > can choose something a little shorter than .../openoffice-1.1.0_1
> > if you want, but since you will have all the utilities in your path
> > and so won't have to use that long name all the time, it doesn't
> > really matter.   Best to leave the base path as /usr/local though.
> > Wherever you have put /usr/local and symlinked it if you have, is OK.
> 
> Yes I have 2 tarballs downloaded to
> 
> /home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/
> en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz
> openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz

OK.  I think the .tbz one is for 5.xx FreeBSD.  For 4.9 there is
an OpenOfficexxxx.tgz.     I didn't do the dictionary one so don't
know much about that one.

> 
> Whether your suggested to run
> 
> # cd /home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/
> # pkg-add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
> (or pkg_add ???)
> 
> Give the path to '/usr/local/'.  Will it create the directory 
> 'openoffice-1.1.0_1' under 'usr/local', i.e.
> /usr/local/openoffice-1.1.0_1

Suggest:
  cd /home/user/Download
  cp openoffice-1.1.0_1 /usr/local/.
  cd /usr/local
  pkg_add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz 
replace instances of {BASE} with /usr/local if needed
  /usr/local/OpenOffice-1.1.0_1/program/soffice       to set up

later runs of soffice will start openoffice running.


(presuming you are running 5.xxx) suggest moving the openofficexxx.tbz
to /usr/local/  and running pkg-add on it.

The pkg-add command would be as above:  pkg-add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz

It will create the  openoffice-1.1.0_1 directory.  It does it  in the 
directory you are in when you run pkg_add, I think.   Since I followed 
the recommendation and put it in /usr/local and CD-ed there and ran it, 
I don't know just how it will do it if run from somewhere else.  But, 
however, that is where you want it to end up.   I also shortened the 
install dir name to .../openoffice1  when it asked but that shouldn't 
make any difference.

Also, by the way, you want to put the path to .../openoffice/program
in your regular path statement in .login or wherever works best for
you and your chosen shell.

> 
> and then to run 'setup' from there afterwards.
> 
> How about the dictionary 'en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz'

I didn't use that so I don't know.    The install would
be the same.  Put it in /usr/local/   and run pkg-add on it.
Beyond that I don't know.    Alternately it might go in the
.../OpenOffice1.1.0_1/ directory and then run pkg_add.

////jerry

> 
> B.R.
> Stephen
> 
> >
> > > | Remark: 'OpenOffice.org1.1.0' is a new folder generated during
> > >
> > > extracting OOo
> > >
> > > | 1.1 tarball.
> > > |
> > > | Kindly advise.  TIA
> > > |
> > > | B.R.
> > > | Stephen Liu
> > > |
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