How do I work with “open-source” programs?
i want to download and use KWORD as a word processor instead of MS Office because my trial expired for that, but i dont understand how to download KWORD. I read that its an open-source program and all i find to download for it are source files with extensions like .tar.bz and .tar.gz/.tar.gz2 and its really confusing. i just want to use Kword, i dont want to configure it or anything! can someone please explain this to me?
"Open source" programs provide the raw computer code. You have to have a compiler to turn the code into a runnable program on your machine. If you’re not into programming, this is not the way for you to go.
And the .tar files aren’t the open-source themselves. They are container files with lots of source code files inside them.
Hope that helps.
Check the site, is there an option for an installer package or executable (.EXE file)? What you’re downloading is the source, which you would have to compile yourself.
I suggest you use OpenOffice.org. It is a much more pollished product. Go to www.openoffice.org to download.