I saw it yesterday

[rtrdom]

[SOLVED See last entry this thread. Yesterday I saw a short method of installing OpenOffice.org in Ubuntu, now I cannot,
after four hours, find it again. I can find how to install it using Alien...however, the
poster of the short method of installing .deb files did not, if I remember correctly,
use Alien. Does anybody know the short method?
Thanks for any response.

[el_ricardo]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=398074 ?

[rtrdom]

Thanks el_ricardo for the response. That link tells how to use Alien, which I'm trying
to avoid. I've tried that and would prefer using (learning about) the shorter method.

[p_quarles]

Are you thinking of the checkinstall program? That creates .deb packages from compiled source code.

[rtrdom]

No, but thanks for trying. The place I saw it must have been in one of the forums
because whoever posted it did so with a highlighted in blue command. I have the
tar ball, have it unpacked, and can see all of the deb packages in the file labeled
OOG680_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9238. I have used Alien in the past to install
these packages but I'm just wanting to use (learn) the shorter method. Thanks again
for the response.

[rtrdom]

This problem is solved. I finally accurately read the instructions and went to the
folder with the DEBS in it. All is well now.
Thanks to all for your help and advice.