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/