can openoffice be installed on slackware?

I have been tring for about 1 hour, and it just wont install, I have unpacked the .taz.gz file, but I cant get the RPMS to run

can someone give me some very simple and easy steps on how to do this?

I have tried running the command rpm -Uvih *rpm - but it just (as always with this damm OS) comes up with errors

I have slack 10.1 with KDE

for one thing it would be alot better if you upgraded to 10.2. This lets you use the most recent software specifically built for Slackware.

Second on www.linuxpackages.net they have specific packages for Openoffice 2.0 for Slackware 10.2(this is why you should upgrade).

Third with the program "rpm2tgz"(tgz is the Slackware binary package compressed file) you can convert rpms to tgz.

I would recommend upgrading to Slackware 10.2 with the instructions on the first slackware disk. you can even look at the instructions for how to upgrade on the 10.1 disks you have(they are the same instructions).

I would also recommend using the tgz packages off of www.linuxpackages.net as they have optimizations for slackware. Try to avoid rpms when there is an identical package specifically built for slackware.

Note: you install slackware packages with "installpkg filename.tgz" as root.

Just to add, Slackware cannot handle rpm's. Sure there are the tools for it, but when the whole system has been installed initially via tgz:s, rpm wont know theyre there, and wont install anything due to dep problems. Heck, it wont install even with force because it cannot find its own libary rpm installed.. (:

So, doing rpm:s with Slackware is a very bad idea, even with rpm2tgz. Use .tgz slackpacks (linuxpackages.net and the official slackware mirrors) or install from source.

With OOo id recomend the packages from Linuxpackages, they work like a dream for me.. But you might want to indeed consider upgrading to 10.2 first..

hi, thanks very much for the replys, downloaded a copy from linuxpackages, and it worked fine (on 10.1)

in fact its working so well, I dont really want to upgrade to 10.2