First I tried Lobster's suggestion. It didn't work for me, but I probably made some dumb mistake. It was late. Then this morning I tried Puppian's suggestion. I retrieved the openoffice_CUTDOWN-1.1.4.tar.gz file and the other openoffice things they had at the pupget site, and put them on sda1 (does it matter where?--I'm not clear on what you mean by "download the package somewhere local.) At this point I realized I was flummoxed. I did figure out how to reveal the hidden .packages folder, but the packages.txt document is empty and seemingly unwritable."You can always download the pupget package of openoffice here:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... ackages-1/
and then install it using pupget.
You create an entry in /root/.packages/packages.txt for the new package, download the package somewhere local, then fire up PupGet and it will be listed. Highlight it and click 'Add'. Then when asked where to download the package, choose 'local'. It can then also be uninstalled."
So I tried PupGet anyway. My Cutdown version of OOo was in /mnt/home/home/joel. I got: There was an error expanding package openoffice_CUTDOWN-1.1.4. Either the file is corrupted, or has not expanded into its own directory with name of openoffice_cutdown-1.1.4 (which is how most packages expand).
I went into that directory, erased what I found there, and tried again. That time it worked, but it turned out that what I had installed was useless--a wrong file choice. I removed it with PupGet and, in the course of looking around, found that there was already an OpenOffice folder on the LiveCD. It's links are broken, but inside a folder called "program" there is a OOo_1.9.122_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz file. (I was pleased as I prefer OOo 1.9.122 to the earlier releases.) So I tried to install that with PupGet and got an "error expanding package" message much like the one in the paragraph above.
I rebooted and looked in the .packages directory. OOo_1.9.122_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz is already there, as well as in the aforementioned OpenOffice/program directory. I tried PupGet one more time with no luck. Same package expansion error. On the chance that the file was corrupted, I deleted the one in the OpenOffice directory and copied the one in the .packages directory back in, then tried that one. No luck.
Any advice? If not, I'll download my own copy of OOo 1.9.x, transfer it via usb key, and try pupget on that.
Upon a re-reading of Lobster's earlier comments, I notice that he said that beta wouldn't work. Lobster, if you're around, were you referring to a beta version of OOo rather than (as I assumed) a beta puppy? Is this my problem? Seems like Blade put that OOo 1.9 in for a reason, though.
Thanks for any and all help. One more thing--if someone could direct me as to how to examine my partitions and free space, that would be great.
Thanks.