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Re: staroffice 6 install



On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I downloaded the staroffice .bin file and have tried to install it on my
> system.  I thought (mistakenly I guess) that I could install by clicking
> on the file or by invoking it from the command line (by typing the file
> name from a bash prompt).

You're almost there with the second one. 'chmod +x whateveritis.bin',
then './whateveritis.bin'. The './' is significant; the execution path
doesn't include the current directory by default, since that would be a
security risk.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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