On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Zed <zed@zed.net.nz> wrote:
I have downloaded libreoffice-build-3.3.0.1 to install on my Desktop,
which is running LMDE (a Mint edition based on Debian)
Well, yes - Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, which is a derivative of
Debian.
Pasted below is the result of my ./configure comaand
zed@zed ~ $ sudo -s [sudo] password for zed: zed zed # cd
/home/zed/Downloads/Linux/Extracted/libreoffice-build-3.3.0.1 zed
libreoffice-build-3.3.0.1 # ./configure bash: ./configure: Permission
denied
Usually this means that you haven't set the permissions to allow
configure to execute.
I am curious, though - have you tried downloading and installing the
Debian (*.deb) files for LO? I use LO on Ubuntu and it installed and
works just fine ootb.