I am writing this article with StarOffice . The installation is entirely automatic. Before starting with the installation, you should make sure that you have a libc version 5.4.22 or later in your system. If your system lacks of this library it can be downloaded from sunsite . If you have Red Hat version 5.0 you also will have problems, since they already use the next version library, libc6 and the libc.so.5.3 .
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It forces the setup program to believe it is dealing with an old style library system. There are two possible styles of installation. The suite could be installed for personal use or system wide use. This installation takes about 114 Mb of disk space. Installation of each user takesabout 12 Mb.