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[Nomdo Jansonius <nomdo AT dds.nl>]

It's amazing: it is possible to run OpenOffice on Basiclinux! My current 
computer, a 120 MHz pentium with 1 Gb HD and 64 Mb RAM (upgraded three 
days ago from 32 Mb using RAM from a broken computer: 0 EURO) can be 
considered the absolute minimum for OpenOffice; Erkki was right. It 
reminds me of running WP 5.1 on my 4 MHz XT in 1993. To start the program 
takes about a minute. Once started, however, things go reasonably fast. I 
selected OpenOffice 1.0.3.1 instead of 1.1 because 1.0.3.1 requires glibc 
2.1.3 (in slackware 7.1) whereas 1.1 needs glibc 2.2.0. The installation 
steps:

  - installpkg glibcso.tgz (slakware/a6) and cxxlibs.tgz (slakware/a3) 
    from slackware 7.1
  - download OpenOffice: OOo_1.0.3.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar (74 Mb); 
    give the file a DOS-friendly (8+3) name: oo.tar
  - make sure you are root (as you probably always are in BL)
  - copy the downloaded oo.tar to /tmp directory
  - cd /tmp
  - extract the file: tar -zxvf oo.tar
  - now you have to start X and open a terminal (xterm) 
  - cd install (a subdirectory of /tmp)
  - execute the setup script for a network installation: ./setup -net
    (for installation directory I chose /root/oo instead of the suggested 
    /root/OpenOffice1.0.3.1)
  - cd /root/oo/program
  - execute the user setup script: ./setup 
    (select workstation installation; I chose /root/oo-user as user 
    directory; Java/Javascript is optional)
  - delete the install files from /tmp

That's it! 

To run the program, go to the program directory (cd /root/oo/program) and 
start the Wordprocessor called Writer (swriter) or e.g. Impress, the open 
source equivalent of powerpoint (simpress). For further details: see 
http://www.openoffice.org

Kind regards, Nomdo