Hi,

I have not looked at staroffice for a while, but I can remember (sometime 
before Sun got it) staroffice was distributed as a single compressed binary file 
(SO5xinstall or something) that must be executed as root, resulting in one or a 
couple of files, at least one of them was an install script that must NOT be 
executed as root, but as user.

HTH

mike  

On 7 Jun 2000, at 19:05, Ben Bogart (admin) wrote:

> How do I run/get star office to work? I tried downloading from sun but
> they don't give a rpm. I assume that because linux apps are emulated on
> netbsd (I've already got it running) on a shadow root that only if you
> install the package with rpm will it work. Is this correct? or could I
> manually unpack and compile under the shadow root?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ben
>