Re: staroffice 6 install

[Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>]

Thanks for everybody's help...it installed like a charm and I'm now
intimately familiar with chmod!

-Trey

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:46, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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]
>