[SLE] Thanks :) further input for StarOffice?
First of all, thanks for all your helpful information. It again proves this is one of the most friendly and helpful mailing list. I am glad I made the choice to choose SUSE. According to all the answers I got, the following seems like the case: 1) I have installed the full version of Star Office which is ~1xx MB by using root. My root can use it without any problems. 2) When I login to a regular user account, I should choose to install the "net" version so that my regular account can use it too. Does my thought make sense? I will try it out tonight and hope it works. If my thought is wrong, please let me know before I make any stupid mistake. Thanks a lot. WM
From: Emerald
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] question about launching program as regular user Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:32:46 +0100 Hi there,
Actually, you need to setup StarOffice with the /net option, so it would look like this: ./setup /net
After this every user who has access to the directory where you installed the network version of StarOffice, just needs to do a normal ./setup to install a couple of megs into his/her homedir.
See ya,
Emerald
Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 wrote:
There is no need to install a full copy of staroffice for every user.
If you install staroffice (as root) to a directory which is accessible
by
other users they need simply run the setup in the bin directory of the installation. In your case /progs/Soffice/bin/setup
It should then ask the user if they wish to do a full or workstation install. A workstation install typically uses 5-6Mb.
The user should rerun the same setup program to uninstall.
Well, this is how I did it with the CD version, not too sure about the one that comes with SuSE?
Hope it helps, RikD
William Chang wrote:
Greeting all:
After installing StarOffice in /progs/SOffice/, I can run soffice as root. However, when I try to launch it as a regular user, it asked me to install it again. I did not want to do it because I don't want to have two copies of StarOffice. However, I am not sure if I can install it over the same directory /progs/Soffice.
I checked the permission of the /progs/Soffice and everyone is allowed to execute it. So what should I do? Do I have to install another copy for regular users? Does it happens to other programs as well? How can I install a program but everyone can use it but with their own personal setting?
Thanks for your help.
WM
This is normal for star office. It's set up like that intentionaly for licensing reasons I beleive. Every user must have it's own install.
MARK
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Hi there, William Chang wrote:
First of all, thanks for all your helpful information. It again proves this is one of the most friendly and helpful mailing list. I am glad I made the choice to choose SUSE.
According to all the answers I got, the following seems like the case:
1) I have installed the full version of Star Office which is ~1xx MB by using root. My root can use it without any problems. 2) When I login to a regular user account, I should choose to install the "net" version so that my regular account can use it too.
Does my thought make sense? I will try it out tonight and hope it works. If my thought is wrong, please let me know before I make any stupid mistake. Thanks a lot.
WM
Making mistakes are often the best way to learn. I made hundreds of 'm, and by correcting them without just doing a simple re-install I really learned a lot. Anyway, lets go through the network version of StarOffice (BTW, I used 5.1 for this, don't know about any previous versions..). First, unpack the StarOffice-file you downloaded. Unpack it on a partition which is either just big enough to unpack it (at the most 150MB free) or big enough to unpack it and install it too (which would require about 170MB extra). Lets say you downloaded it to your homedirectory, you would like to unpack it here and install it to /opt/Office51 : Login with your normal username and unpack the StarOffice file (make sure you have enough rights if you copied it elsewhere: tar -xvf so51_lnx_31.tar This creates two subdirectories in the directory where you extracted it. Change into the StarOffice (not the documentation) directory and then into the bin directory. You should see a program called 'setup'. Now, do a 'su' to root and while in this bin directory, type: ./setup /net This should install the networked version of StarOffice 5.1. After the installation is complete, type 'exit' to change back to your normal user account. Go to the directory where you installed StarOffice and again change to the bin directory. This time, as a normal user, you only have to type: ./setup to install StarOffice. This has to be done for every user who wishes to use StarOffice as they cannot you use the installed version by root. About 3 MB is copied to the homedir of every user with this setup. Well, that's all there is to it. Just remember, as tempting as it is, don't try to work as root unless you really need to, you'll learn the power of Linux a lot faster and it'll keep you from making fatal mistakes... (IOW, don't use StarOffice as root). See ya, Emerald -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, William Chang wrote:
First of all, thanks for all your helpful information. It again proves this is one of the most friendly and helpful mailing list. I am glad I made the choice to choose SUSE.
According to all the answers I got, the following seems like the case:
1) I have installed the full version of Star Office which is ~1xx MB by using root. My root can use it without any problems. 2) When I login to a regular user account, I should choose to install the "net" version so that my regular account can use it too.
ONLY root can do a net install. So do the net install as root. If you do a net install as root and then immediately run StarOffice as root, then rip out StarOffice and start over - that's the easiest way to fix it. Once the net install is complete, then - as root - run a client install. This is a good (not perfect) defense against messing up the installation. Fortunately, the net install dropped an icon on the KDE desktop which will run the client install. The client install changes that icon to run StarOffice as a client (the proper way to do it) and also adds a few items to the Personal menu. One of them is SPAdmin. Go there and define printers to StarOffice. Now you can switch to other (non-root) userids and run the client install there as well. EVERY userid that is going to use StarOffice must run the client install. This also gives each userid the ability to have its own settings, defaults, recent document list,... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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