Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Tuesday 2004-03-29 at 14:28 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

> I tried the network install and still didnt have OO1.1 as user.  It
> complained of language conflict and forced install to new directory.
> Then when I tried as user to run the initialization directly from run I
> did not get 1.1 installed.

I still have not installed 1.1 in linux, so I can not be absolutely sure,
but I heard a similar complaint a week ago. From memory, the install
process is as follows:

- Expand the tgz file on some temporary directory.
- Read the instructions - important!
- maybe delete some files of the previous install.
- Execute, as root, the installation program - I think it is ./setup.
  It will install in /opt/OpenOffice.org/ or
  /usr/local/opt/OpenOffice.org/setup, depends.
- If asked, specify network install, never workstation.

- Then, the temporary directory can be deleted.
- Execute, as user, the program /opt/OpenOffice.org/setup - it is not the
same setup as the one used to install the program. This one will install
some files to your user directory instead.
- The program to be called will be /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/swriter.


SuSE has /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo, which is a link to /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo-wrapper
- a script - in fact, all OOo* are symlinks to that wrapper. If you
removed the SuSE rpm, those links and script will be missing, and if not,
the script is configured for the old program. Therefore, call
/opt/OpenOffice.org/program/swriter directly.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson