How do I install StarOffice?

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SuSE Linux: Version 6.0
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Request:

You would like to install StarOffice, but you don't know how.

Procedure:

Here is a step-by-step guide in three parts:
    1. Please login as Superuser (root).

    2. Place the SuSE Linux 6.0 CD number 3 in your CD-ROM drive.

    3. Start YaST and select the menu: Choose/Install packages, then select Change/Create configuration .

    4. Select from the series pay the package so_de by pressing the space key.

    5. Confirm your selection with the F10 key.

    6. Press again F10 and select the menu option Start installation. The package so_de will now be installed.

    7. Quit YaST when the package installation is finished.

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    2. Login now as the user who wants to use StarOffice: every single user has to install StarOffice individually.

    3. Start X and its Windowmanager, for example by typing startx.

    4. Open a Terminal-Window (xterm).
      (for example: KDE-User proceed as following: take your mouse to the desktop-background and press the right mouse button. Now select Execute command and enter xterm.)

    5. Enter the following command: sosetup. Note: In SuSE 6.2 this command is /opt/Office51/bin/setup.

    6. The StarOffice Installationprogramm starts and guides you through the rest of the installation.

  1. Once the installation is finished, you can uninstall the big package so_de in order to save place in your harddisk. The package only contains the source for the instalation.

Keywords: STAROFFICE, OFFICE, INSTALL

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