Mike Easter wrote:

> Dr. Deb wrote:
>> Trying to install Star Office and everything goes well until I get to
>> the install screen (download and unpack worked well).
>
> Yours isn't a very informative background setup for a question.
>
> It doesn't describe what 'method' is being used to install what Star
> Office to what (presumably) linux distro and desktop environment.
>
> The majority of linux distros of various DEs come with SO preinstalled.
> The majority of linux distros and DEs use a package management system
> which doesn't isolate any kind of process which resembles 'download and
> unpack'.
>
> So as a result, your question setup leaves the reader to imagine what
> you are doing and why you are using the words you are using in the way
> you are using them.
>
> It is an interesting little game that some of those who help those who
> ask questions play to try to guess at what the questioner was looking at
> and thinking about and using when they were struck to ask the question,
> but it isn't a good way to get the results you want.
>
> Why don't you start by not assuming that anyone who is reading your post
> knows what kind of operating system you are working with and what v. of
> SO you are wanting to install and what method you are using to install
> it.
>
>
> --
> Mike Easter

Okay, nasty habit we have of assuming all are on the same page.

I downloaded the SO file NOT OpenOffice, but Sun's StarOffice 8. Ran
the "sh xxxxxxxxx.sh" command and things proceeded as they should. A
terminal window opened and asked me where I wanted to unpack the "sh" file.
I accepted the default and it unpacked the file into the "tmp" directory
and then opened the Install window. That was all as it should be, the only
problem is, the Install window was blank. It may well be a video setting,
but before I mess with too much, I was wondering if someone else had had
the same problem

thanks

Deb