Michael George wrote:
> 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
Seem like you willneed to untar the file first. If you have enough room some
where for it and the installed stuff too, try:
cd /path/to/untarredfilesdir
tar -xvf /path/to/tar/file
you should now be able to run the thing setup or whatever.
Bret
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