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Download & Install StarOffice

Current Release : 5.2

If you have a CD drive on your computer...

Please contact BCC (hotline@bilkent.edu.tr) (phone: 2555) to borrow a StarOffice CD.

Disk Space Requirements:
To install StarOffice from a CD, you will need to have about 120 MBytes of free disk space (full installation).

Installation:
Insert the CD to your drive and start the SETUP.EXE program.Installation is fairly easy; just follow the instructions on your screen and choose default option(s)-Next buttons in every window you are prompted. Filling out the user info form screen is optional but we recommend you at least fill out your name and e-mail address.

To download the StarOffice installation program set from Bilkent FTP serves, please choose one of the following:

  • Install set split into 10 pieces
  1. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-000.exe (10 MBytes)
  2. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-001.bin (10 MBytes)
  3. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-002.bin (10 MBytes)
  4. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-003.bin (10 MBytes)
  5. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-004.bin (10 MBytes)
  6. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-005.bin (10 MBytes)
  7. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-006.bin (10 MBytes)
  8. so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-007.bin (8.5 MBytes)
  9. soa-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en.exe (12 MBytes)
  10. sop-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en.exe (6.6 MBytes)

Download the installation file(s) to a temporary directory on your PC. C:\TEMP or C:\WINDOWS\TEMP can be good place to put your install files. Please note that it is important to download the files to a temporary directory. If you have download problems with these EXE and bin files; for example if your browser is displaying garbage looking text rather than prompting you for a location to save the files, try clicking the above links while pressing the Shift key on your keyboard.

Disk Space Requirements:
To download the StarOffice install program(s) from the network, you will need to have about 180 MBytes of free disk space (about 65 MB for the install set and the rest for the actual program). Once the installation is complete, you can remove the install set from your computer to recover the 65 MB space.

Once the downloads are completed:
When all the install files are downloaded to the temporary directory, run so-5_2-ga-bin-windows-en-000.exe once

This program will install StarOffice 5.2 on your computer.

The rest is fairly easy; just follow the instructions on your screen and choose default option(s)-Next buttons in every window you are prompted. Filling out the user info form screen is optional but we recommend you at least fill out your name and e-mail address.