Try 'install' instead of 'setup'. The '-net' option is the default now. So, if you wish to install a private version, execute './install --single'. The automated install didn't work for me, but I did have success with the interactive procedure. I installed a network copy successfully with the following command from root: ./install --prefix=/opt --interactive Then, from my personal account, I simply executed: cd /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 ./setup to install the client files. Good luck, -jrh
I posted something similar some weeks ago. I have exactly the same problems with version 1.0. Judging from answers that I got to the previous posting it is possible - and not more difficult than installing StarOffice - to install OO under 7.3. When I try to install (either logging in to X as root, using "sux" or "sudo") and giving the command ./setup or ./setup -net is this: The message "glibc: 2.2.4" in my terminal and immediately thereafter a progress meter that's actually indicating something . Then the progress meter dissapears and I get the prompt back some seconds later.
Stracing the process (strace -o /tmp/oostracefil sudo ./setup -net) gives me 128 ENOENT (No such file or directory) messages. Also during "installation" the directory /tmp/sv001.tmp is created and also deleted. This directory contains some of the files that are reported missing.
I have a fairly normal 7.3 setup: kernel 2.4.18 built from mantel sources, no abnormal libraries (if you don' count some ximian-libraries that got installed with apt-get before i deleted ximian from my sources-list).
Clues? Hints? Other failure-stories?
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