hey guys where to dl the latest staroffice for linux har?

Try here...I assume you want the free version?

http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/st...2/get/get.html

You can get the latest release from here:

http://www.openoffice.org

wow i saw the installation was quite a pain in the neck. tedious man. Anyone call guide me with all the steps? And by the way startoffice is good to use right?

Hi,
I didn't have any problems installing StarOffice. I think StarOffice is as good as the user.

Can u please tell me the steps installing it?

thanks
redhat 7.2

download it as user, not root, use your file manager of choice, just double click the file and it will install for you, follow the on screen instructions.

Star office 5.2 is kind of old. To reiterate, the latest release is available for download at http://www.openoffice.org

su
cd /tmp
tar xvfz install641D_linux_intel.tar.gz
cd normal
./setup

Glock Shooter u mean download the tar.gz and then use file manager? any specify steps? cause im new to linux

thanks for the info
thanks all

as said above, Sun Microsystems are charging for the latest version of StarOffice (they are hoping to become the next micro$oft...) but OpenOffice from openoffice.org is the most up to date version of the software, It will always be free, as it's GPLd and open source.
I haven't installed it myself yet, so no clues there yet, but do make sure you have openoffice and not staroffice, is my recommendation, since you will have an old or illegal version of StarOffice if you did indeed get it free.

I downloaded staroffice 5.2 and it was a .bin file not a tar.gz

hey Sifvion! wah finally got another singaporean! got another guy here is malaysian... but eh here cannot har and lor, people won't understand...

as for staroffice, i using 5.2 now also. it's not bad... but don't expect the MS office quality. it's still not there yet... but usable.

yah get the tar.gz file (tar.gz is known as a tarball). then use a console (eg. xterm or rxvt or konsole etc etc). go to the directory you want to store your installation files and then type:

gunzip yourFile.tar.gz
tar -xvf yourFile.tar

den after that, run the setup script that is found in the installation directory you created earlier... i can't exactly remember but i think you can type:
./setup.ini
or something like that... after that the installation will run.

and ya, the new staroffice 6 is not going to be free... there's a GPL project that is called OpenOffice... that one should be always free lah.

welcome to LQ!

It's hard to compare any company to M$. They have been campaigning against GPL lately.

Just remember than Sun bought Star Office and LGPL'd it for us so we could have http://www.openoffice.org Lets not bite the hand that feeds us!

Star Office will probably never be much more than a "re-branded" version of Open Office.

Is the openoffice.org 1.0 and staroffice the same thing?

Not exactly!! StarOffice is now a commercial product from Sun. OpenOffice.org is Sun's equivalent open source office suite. They are not exactly the same, but are very close. StarOffice is closed source since there are components that Sun can't give away for free. OpenOffice.org is open source, and free to download (or you can purchase a CD). All the OpenOffice.org components were developed by Sun to be open under the GPL/LGPL (whichever one it is). OpenOffice.org is supposed to be much better than StarOffice 5.2 and about the same quality as StarOffice 6.

Go to www.openffice.org and check out the latest information !!