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dick-richardson
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beginner linux question

How in the blazes do I set my computer up as a DHCP client?

How do I "force quit" programs?

I installed star office (in /home/openoffice - would there be a better place?), now how do I run it from the command line and KDE?

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10-28-2001 07:47 PM

recordond
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force quit is ctrl-c

star office, I would install it in /usr/local/soffice
to run it goto its directory and type soffice there are instruuctions that came with it or that are on line.

10-29-2001 12:28 AM

sowens
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Re: beginner linux question

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
How in the blazes do I set my computer up as a DHCP client?

Never set mine up as a DHCP client before, but /usr/docs should contain all the Linux HOWTOs. Do a grep -i for DHCP and you should find something useful.

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How do I "force quit" programs?

kill -9 <PID>

where <PID> is the process ID of the program you want to kill. You can find that out with ps -ax.

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I installed star office (in /home/openoffice - would there be a better place?), now how do I run it from the command line and KDE?

Check the OpenOffice web site. There's got to be something there about installations.

Hope this was helpful.

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10-29-2001 03:11 AM

dick-richardson
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I configured linux to use a static ip address. It was much easier and there isn't much risk of it changing.

It looks like * - esc is force quit. The question arose because I somehow managed to halt kde. The problem with the kill command was that I wasn't able to type it while the gui was running in the fore. Isn't there a key combination that lets you open another command-line session at the same time?

I tried moving /openoffice, but it still didn't work, so I deleted everything and will try a re-install. Is there a registry or similar that I need to worry about?

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10-31-2001 07:02 PM

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quote:
Originally posted by dick-richardson

It looks like * - esc is force quit. The question arose because I somehow managed to halt kde. The problem with the kill command was that I wasn't able to type it while the gui was running in the fore. Isn't there a key combination that lets you open another command-line session at the same time?

I think alt-F<n> (function key where N is 1 - 8) will automatically switch out of graphics mode and give you another console window, but it's been a loooong time since I've done that.

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Originally posted by dick-richardson

I tried moving /openoffice, but it still didn't work, so I deleted everything and will try a re-install. Is there a registry or similar that I need to worry about?

Not that I'm aware of.

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10-31-2001 08:43 PM

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