Okay, I give up... I have a StarOffice CD that a friend burned for me with
the star office tar file on it.
I can easily use tar to extract the file to a writeable part of the filesystem
and then run setup, but I want to be able to do it with the standard KDE GUI
tools so that I can talk some linux newbies through the installation.
I've tried KFM, which did a good (albiet slow) job of walking through the tar
file as though it were a file tree, but when I tried to run
so51inst/office51/setup, it said it could only run files on a local disk. I
tried copying it to root's home directory, but that didn't help. Apparently
being anywhere within the tar file is considered not on a local disk.
Next I tried "ark", which, being an archive tool I thought would be the thing
to use. However, when I select the tar file to open (whether on the CD-ROM or
on a RW filesystem) I get the error message: "unknown archive format". Seems
odd...
Kpackage was my next thought, but it only deals with RPM, DEB, and such
files...
Could someone please name an app that would do what I need. I know that as a
fall-back I can just talk them through the "manual" steps in a terminal
window, but it would be more impressive if I can point them through GUI steps.
Thanks!
-Michael
--
No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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