Shawn wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:53:16 -0500
>Ryan Hayle <hackel at walkingfish.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>apt-get install openoffice.org.  Couldn't be simpler.  No monkey
>>business.
>>
>>Even if you're not lucky enough to have a debian-based distro, I'm
>>sure those redhat kiddies have something similar you can use instead
>>of compiling the source...
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Bah!  Compiling from source is nothing on Open Office...   
>
>Get the source, install from source, feel the exposure to source, gain experience!  =)
>
>It's not hard to install from source at all.
>
>IIRC, all you need to do:
>
>-download it (which you've already done)
>-mv it to a directory.  I prefer to put it in /usr/local/src
>-tar zxvf OO tar.gz file
>-cd into source directory  (usr/local/src/OpenOffice....)
>- run ./install -net  (ya want this because then it's only a couple of megs in your home directory for each user) as root
>-su or login as non root user who will use this 
>-run /usr/local/src/OpenOffice.../setup
>
>  
>
#emerge openoffice

wow, compiling from source has never been easier! =P

LB



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