[xubuntu-users] How to Install a tar.gz?

[Steve]

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:25:18 -0000, Robin <dixiedancer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vincent wrote:
>> What particular application is it? There might very well be alternate,
>> better ways of obtaining an installer for Xubuntu as you normally
>> don't want to install from source (or at least if you don't really
>> know how to do it). Instructions are usually in a file named INSTALL
>> in the .tar.gz (which you can extract by double-clicking on it to
>> obtain the source). But again, first tell us which application it is
>> because you most likely don't want to do this.
> It's a beta of OpenOffice for Kids
> (http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page). Maybe better to wait for
> a .deb package, lol.
>
> -Robin
>
>
It’s actually pretty straight forward.


 From the site:

1. Uncompress the tar.gz file in your personal folder.
2. Find the soffice binary file and run it.
3. If OOo4kids is running normally, create a shorcut (or launcher) for it

What I did.

1. create a folder OOo4Kids
2. Right Click the tar.gz
3. Open with Xarchiver
4. Extract to OOo4Kids folder
5. Navigate to OOo4kids/en-US/ooo4kids0.5.1/program/
6. Double click soffice.bin

Can’t see why it’s better for kids then standard OOo though.

-- 
Steve