Open Office - installation problem

Terry L. Tyson Jr. ty at tyson.homeunix.org
Sat Apr 24 16:08:55 PDT 2004


On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file.  But yes, you do need to
> go do some reading, and there very likely are other things you will need
> to do.  As a previous responder noted, when you 'su -' it simulates a
> full root login, which puts you in root's home dir.  I note that you
> said when you attempted to correctly add the pkg, it hung.  It's big.
> Use the pkg_add command, perhaps with -v so you can see what's
> happening, and install the darned thing.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua

Oops, my bad. Didn't look close enough before responding. I installed
OO just the other day on 4.9 using a .tgz file. It worked quite well.

HTH
--
Terry


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