The Openoffice install from a tar.gz is not an install from source. It's just a binary install with OO's installer. No compile involved. -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Shawn wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:28:07 -0500 > Ryan Hayle <hackel at walkingfish.com> wrote: > > It would likely be hard for a Windows user who thinks "tar.gz" files > > are a new experience! I must be in the minority around here, but I > > know there's no way in hell I could compile OpenOffice.org on my > > system. Even if I did free up enough disk space, it would take me a > > couple days to finish all the compiling... Plus, "make install" makes > > me cringe...unmanaged files outside of my home directory?!? Eek! > > Hope their "make uninstall" is reliable! > > Just do it.... I, and many others were in your shoes before. The first time was nerve wracking, after that, it's not hard at all. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list