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Obtaining a License Key and Customer Number

Before you can install StarOffice 5, you must have a license key and a Customer Number from StarDivision. The license key is a long alphanumeric code; the Customer Number is a seven digit number. Both are entered during the installation of StarOffice.

To obtain your own license key and Customer Number, visit the StarDivision Web site at http://www.stardivision.com or http://www.stardivision.de (German version) and go to the StarOffice for Linux download page.

Follow the steps onscreen to download a copy of StarOffice for Linux. You'll need to register some personal information (including your name, address, and email address). After confirming this information, a Registration Data screen provides you with a license key and a Customer Number. Print out this screen and keep it for your records. You can't install StarOffice without this information.

At this point you can either exit your browser (if you already have a copy of StarOffice 5) or continue and download StarOffice. The download file is about 64 MB.

Once you have downloaded the StarOffice archive to a temporary directory, you must unpack it so that you can install the product. The downloaded file is a tar archive. You can unpack it with a command like this:


$ tar xvf /tmp/so501.tar

Caution - The archive is not compressed (it is not in .tgz format) because it contains files that are already compressed. Don't use the z option in your tar command.


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