Open Office and / or Libre Office

[LinuxIsOne]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM, LinuxIsOne <reallife at hmamail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>> The page you get to with that link look different for me than it does
>> for you, since it depends on your system.
>>
>> First of all, if 32 bit, select Linux x86 (deb). I guess you did that
>> already. Then select your language. IN my case it is Swedish, so I get
>> these downloads:
>> LibO_3.4.4_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz 145 MB
>> LibO_3.4.4_Linux_x86_langpack-deb_sv.tar.gz 1.9 MB (sv - Svenska)
>> LibO_3.4.4_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_sv.tar.gz 10 MB (sv - Svenska)
>>
>> I guess it will be similar for you, except a different language.
>> Download all three of them. Put them somewhere easily available, let's
>> say at ~/Desktop.
>> Now, at your desktop, select all of them, right click, select ”Extract
>> here…”
>> Three new folders are created on your desktop.
>> You can now remove the original archive files, those you just downloaded.
>>
>
> Okay I have downloaded and extracted the two files (since my language
> being US_EN). The extracted two files are as follows:
>
> LibO_3.4.4rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US
> LibO_3.4.4rc2_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-US
>
>
> Open a terminal.
>> cd Desktop/Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US/DEBS
>>
>
> Okay, my case I run:
>
> cd Desktop/LibO_3.4.4rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US
>
>
>> (use the TAB key so you don't have to type all that manually)
>> sudo dpkg -i *deb
>>
>
> Running this command yields errors:
>
> linuxsafe at linuxsafe-desktop:~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.4rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US$
> sudo dpkg -i *
> [sudo] password for linuxsafe:
> dpkg-split: error reading DEBS: Is a directory
> dpkg: error processing DEBS (--install):
>  subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
> dpkg-split: error reading readmes: Is a directory
> dpkg: error processing readmes (--install):
>  subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  DEBS
>  readmes
> linuxsafe at linuxsafe-desktop
> :~/Desktop/LibO_3.4.4rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US$
>
> And I am returned back to the prompt!
>
> So from now onwards, what I do?
>

I am sorry that I run this command without entering into the sub-directory
'DEBS' which now I do and it works.
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