On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 14:16, Helgi Örn wrote:

I just downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org638C without as much as a hic-up! No errors at all! All of the applications run smoothly so far. This is the package i downloaded: install638C_linux_intel.tar.gz from here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/build_638c/build638c.html

Cheers, Helgi Örn

All right, after a new dl, it worked to install it. As far as I can see, it was only the setup which should have been renamed to setup.ins (?!?!) I installed it to /opt/openoffice, to make sure that every user can run it. This works as well, but you cannot save settings, since OO tries to do this in the opt directory - neither does a user have write access to this directory nor does it make sense. Please don't tell me that the only way to make it work is installing it in every single home directory consuming 240 MB each. That's the way I had it with StarOffice, and I would rather leave this way [if this is possible :-) ] Btw, I already tried to install OO to /home/wolfi/openoffice, and the installer told me that OO is already installed in /opt/openoffice, so I think there should be a way to save individual settings in §HOME and the program files in /opt. At least I hope so :-) Cheers ... Wolfi ================================== mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:41:47 +0100 Ming-Che Lee wrote:

Hi Wolfi,

On Sunday 25. November 2001 12:12, wolfi wrote:

...

All right, after a new dl, it worked to install it. As far as I can see, it was only the setup which should have been renamed to setup.ins (?!?!) I installed it to /opt/openoffice, to make sure that every user can run it. This works as well, but you cannot save settings, since OO tries to do this in the opt directory - neither does a user have write access to this directory nor does it make sense. Please don't tell me that the only way to make it work is installing it in every single home directory consuming 240 MB each. That's the way I had it with StarOffice, and I would rather leave this way [if this is possible :-) ]

Well, StarOffice has install options for standalone and net installation. The net installation is what you want! :-) So, maybe you can also choose between standalone or net as well as with OpenOffice. I don't know it by sure because I never installed OpenOffice but StarOffice.

I did the install of OpenOffice638 recently and it works well as net installation. Just install it with "setup /net" as root under /opt (for example) and then install for each user simply with "/opt/openoffice/setup" (or wherever you installed it).

Best regards,

Ming-Che

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* Bartydeux (bartydeux@gminformatique.com) [011125 11:41]: ->I have installed version 638c on SuSE 7.2. Installation went apparently ->faultless. -> ->Problem though: how to start OO. "soffice" instruction is unknown. -> cd ~/<OO directory> ./soffice If you want to use it on a regular basis..make a shortcut to it..on the KDE panel or desktop. If your not using KDE then edit your menu so it executes this file...or take StarOffice 5.2 out of your path and put this in it. Simple :) Since this is a beta and not to worked out as far as installation..I wouldn't expect an automatic icon to appear :) Cheers, -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -AE