Nico, It's not hard. The file comes as a tar.gz file. You unpack it and a pdf file with instructions in the unpacked directory can take you from there. Essentially, you do the following: As superuser, run ./setup -n After the files are installed, you duck out of superuser and back to your own user name. Then you cd into the directory where you installed Open Office. There, you'll find a setup command. Run it as user. It will set up the requisite files and directories in your /home/~ subdirectory. You can then activate OO.o from this subdirectory or put the path in a menu entry... Best, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in Home: 508-520-3139 pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Peter N. Spotts (Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:24:51PM -0500)

P.S. You need to uninstall the your current setup first, if I recall correctly.

only if you wish to install in the same directory. I just instaled in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.1 and left /opt/OpenOffice.org as it was. I can always uninstalll it if OOo111 seems to be the better choice (and it seems like it. t does no longer get confused by a 3200x1200 screen (dual monitor NVidia combo) Currently listening to: 871113-d3t02 Gerhard, == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O Sex is more fun than logic =`\<, One cannot prove this, but it IS (=)/(=) In the same sense that Mt Everest IS or that Alma Cogan ISN'T

* Carl William Spitzer IV (Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:33:15PM -0800)

I tried that with 1.1 upgrade from 1.0 and the menus still only run 1.0

Which menus ? If it's KDE , you might wanna use the kmenueditor. OOo111 installs the local stuff under $HOME/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/ so you will have to change the location of the program being started. Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 ICT manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Fugro-Jason Fax :+31-10.280.1511 gdenhollander@Fugro-Jason.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.Fugro-Jason.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. This e-mail shall not be deemed binding unless confirmed in writing. If you have received it by mistake, please let us know by e-mail reply and delete it from your system; you may not copy this message or disclose its contents to anyone. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.