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tom poe wrote:
Hi: I purchased openoffice build 641 from Cheap Bytes. I tried to download a couple times, but just too big. Put the CD in and - - - realized, I've never installed from a third-party CD. So, on the CD, there's a folder that says "binaries", and in the folder, there's one "install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz". So, anyone tell me what I do from there?
Specifically, what's advantage of binaries over src. install? I have both on the CD.
The advantage of binaries over the source install, is that you do not have to go thru the compile process, which can easily fail on a big package like openoffice. It can be something as small as having a libpath slightly different from suse's. It also lets you off the hook if you don't have all the development libraries installed. On the other hand, it's easier to get a worm or trojan with binary installs. With the source install, at least you have the code to go back and look at if you suspect something. Not that you are going to look thru all that source, but I suspect that most trojan writers try to keep them out of the source, where they would be easily spotted. I would try to do the source install; then if it fails, do the binary install. You may want to try and debug the source install if it fails, just look at the error messages, and edit the configure script and/or makefile to fix it. You may need to install some rpms. Look at what lib is needed by the error message, then search the ARCHIVES.gz to see what rpm it is in. (I sure miss the Yast feature in older versions of suse, where it would search the cd for you and find the right rpm automatically. I wonder why they took that out?) As far as the tar.gz install file goes, copy it to your harddrive and tar -zxvf install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz then read the INSTALL file or README. If they have a way of installing directly from the cdrom, make sure you mount it as root, with execute permissions. Something like mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}