Donwloaded Openoffice but not installed

[rapattack]

Hi fortunately I am on the net now with Debian for the very first time and still getting to know it. I thought I have downloaded and installed all the bits for openoffice but it is not showing in the menu as installed. In the KMenu. Sorry I am still extremely new to the terminology of Linux. Do I have to do something like a resolve or reconfigure and what would be the exact command? I got the dependencies that I thought were needed.

[devils casper]

How did you install Openoffice? Which command did you execute to install it?

[rapattack]

I went to the openoffice site and used kpackage to install all the pieces. As I downloaded it said I could either "save" "open" or ???? Can't remember.

[devils casper]

Execute this

which openoffice

Does it display path of openoffice?

Open Adept Package Manager and search for OpenOffice. Is it marked as Installed? If not, install OpenOffice with Adept only.

[rapattack]

It just goes back to the command prompt when I do that. Nothing happens anotherwords.

[devils casper]

It means OpenOffice is not installed. Did you check in Adept Package Manager? I would suggest you to install it using Adept only Or execute this

su
apt-get install openoffice.org

[rapattack]

Your a gem thank you so much! All is installed and well!!!!

[devils casper]

Glad to help you rapattack !

[Conficio]

Hi there,
if you need some help with open office, check out the hundreds of short videos (screencasts) for OpenOffice.org. They are done on Windows, but work on Linux as well as Debian.

K<o>

[iwanabeguru]

if you want use the newer version you need install it manually.

download the openoffice in tar which contains all the deb packages to an empty directory
cd to download directory
extract it

tar vxfz all_the_debs.tar.gz
or
tar vxfj all_the_debs.tar .bz2

install it

dpkg -i *