[Discuss] Installing OpenOffice

[David Frey]

On 6/21/2006, "Murray Strome" <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:

>I have forgotten exactly how to install OpenOffice 2 and the
>OpenOffice.org site is down till tomorrow. In my Google searches, that
>is the only place that I could find that has the instructions. The
>readme's do NOT have them.
>
>After downloading the tar.gz file and extracting it, inside the
>resulting directory, there are three subdirectories -- Readmes, Licenses
>and RPMs. The Readmes don't help.
>

Most distributions have packages available for OpenOffice.  Can you use
those?  What distribution are you running?