I am useing PClinuxOS .92 and i have installed it on my hardrive. I have no way of connecting it to the internet. I can get online at school and at friends homes and transfer files to a USB pendrive. I wana be able to install Openoffice and DVD seport. Were do i get the files and dependancease from within a windows system saved to a USB drive? and what ones do i install first? I am all new to this Linux stuff.

You may have accidentally posted this in the wrong forum.

If I were you though, I would start with the documentation on their website.

OpenOffice can be installed thru synaptic (it takes it from the CD you used to install). http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/OpenOffice

For DVD Playback, read http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/PlayDVDs

i know i need the libdvdcss2 but how do i download any of it off the web. I can't connect with PClinuxOS's software program i have no internet at home.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux-Distributions and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Sorry, missed the part about libdvdcss2 being online only. Thought it was on the CD like OpenOffice.

From the top of this website, the author basically says you download libdvdcss2 and then as root rpm -ivh /path/to/rpm. It doesn't look like there are any dependencies. But if you get an error trying to install and there is a dependency not met, write down that file and make sure it is installed. If not, download and install that rpm first and repeat. If it gets too complex, it may be easier to take your machine to a friend's house that has broadband and then just install it with Synaptic. Otherwise, if you keep hunting for dependencies, this is what we call "Dependency Hell", which is why package managers were created...

Mod Note: "Dependency hell" is where you go to install rpm1 and it asks for rpm2, so you try to install rpm2 and it asks for rpm3. You try to install rpm3 and it asks for rpm1. True hell if you don't know the fix.


Protip: rpm -ivh rpm1 rpm2 rpm3