Introduction
This topic covers the installation of Open Office from the Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 Tasty Morsels CD-ROM. Please note that you need at least 250 megabytes of free disk space in order to install Open Office.

As background, Open Office is an open source, full-featured office suite published by Sun Microsystems as Star Office.

The Java Issue
Open Office depends on a java runtime environment being installed on your system for full functionality. Luckily, Terra Soft was able to bundle such a runtime environment on the Tasty Morsels CD-ROM to compliment Open Office.

Prior to installing Open Office itself, it is recommended that you install the Java 2 Runtime Environment package (j2re). If you have already installed j2re on your own, please skip to the next section of this topic.

To do this and eventually install Open Office, you will need to have the Tasty Morsels CD-ROM placed in your drive. At a root ("Super User") command-line, mount your Tasty Morsels CD-ROM on the Linux filesystem as /mnt/cdrom by typing the following:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Next, install the j2re rpm package with the following command:

rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/YellowDog/ppc/j2re-1.3.0-1.ppc.rpm

Now you're ready to install Open Office.

Open Office Installation
To install Open Office, run the following commands as the user that you want to install Open Office for:

cd /tmp

Open Office is provided on Tasty Morsels as a large tar gzipped file. You will need to uncompress this file in order to run the Open Office Installer. When you're done installing Open Office, you can easily remove the temporary files from /tmp.

tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/openoffice/oo627b_installer_rev1.tar.gz

This will uncompress the Open Office installer and its components. The resulting data will be created under the installer_627/ directory inside of /tmp.

cd installer_627/
./setup

Change into the Open Office installer directory ("installer_627/") and run the setup program. The Open Office installer is extremely straightforward. Do note that it will ask you where you'd like to install Open Office. This is entirely up to you. The installer should also locate your Jave 2 Runtime Environment installation.

Once installation has completed, change to the directory that you installed Open Office to and go into the new "openoffice60/" directory. From there, you can test your new Open Office installation by running:

./soffice

Assuming all works, you can remove the temporary Open Office installer data by executing the following command:

cd /tmp
rm -rf installer_627/