Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 January 2011 02:07:19 pm Mark wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:44:21 pm Mark wrote:
> > > snip
> > >
> > > > On that terminal, execute the following lines:
> > > >
> > > > cd Downloads
> > > > tar xzf LibO_3.3.0rc3_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
> > >
> > > The 'tar' man page says to use  a '-' for the main operation mode, and
> > > options,  ' -xzf', have not tried it without the dash to see if it
> works.
> > It also says:
> >
> > A function letter need not be prefixed with ``-'',...
> >
> > The preceding dash has been deprecated for at least five years if not
> > longer.
>
> Thanks, good to know :-)
Seriously. I didn't know that either.
good stuff,
tony

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