OpenOffice 3.0.0

[Nigel Ridley]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 27 October 2008 01:30:07 am Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> OK, so I downloaded the 'OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz';
>> unpacked it and navigated to the 'DEBS' directory. Now what!? There are 47
>> .deb files. How does one go about installing OpenOffice 3.0.0?
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
>>
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> Howdy, Nigel.
> Before you go to installing All 47 packages, remove the .deb files for 
> language support that you do not need.  
> 
> Either delete them (if you still have the compressed download file) or move 
> them.
> 
> That way you don't install a lot of space wasting files you don't need.
> 
> 

Actually the only extra language was/is a French dictionary. I downloaded the:
OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

Using 'sudo dpkg -i *.deb' (on the DEBS dir) it installed into /opt -- which means I keep OOoo 
2.4 as well.

Blessings,

Nigel

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