OT Open Office.

To navigate in the linux terminal use:

cd /home/download/oo

Notice that 'cd' is lowercase, that matters in linux. And you must use forward slashes, not backslashes. OO is kind of overkill for a few notes isn't it? gedit is what I use, and there may be abiword on there but I don't remember.

Moses

The easiest way to install Open Office is the Synaptic Package Manager from the menu. Just do a search for open office and pick what you want.

On the other hand I just right click in a directory and create a new text file and qedit is fine for a few notes.

John

In Synaptic, you may have to open Settings->Repositories and make sure there is a check by the "Community-maintained..." item. Hit the "Reload" button, after you close that dialog and after the packages are updated you should be able to find OO with a search.

I forgot to mention that you must have a space between 'cd' and the directory. i.e.

cd /home

There must be a space between any command and it's arguments (directory in this case).

If you actually installed OO, it will be in your Applications->Office menu. If it's not there, it probably didn't install (or maybe not all of it).

Moses

Glad you got it working.

Every now and then Linux really does live up to its bad reputation doesn't it?

heh, there's a learning curve to everything. I first installed Debian linux 2.0 (I think) from 5 or 6 floppies. Having only used DOS and Windows before that, I had quite a learning curve. I knew no one else using linux, so I had to learn from manpages and tidbits I could find on the web. One big problem was that I really needed to know the names of the commands I needed in order to look them up. Now things are so much better that I really hate using and setting up Windows - it's more of a pain and learning curve for me now (especially Vista and 7 which I don't use).