These instructions did not work for me.  It says in steps 6,7,8 to do the 
user portion of the setup but it does not say to logout from root.

Then, if you do these steps as root, it wants to install in the /root 
directory not the /home/user directory.  I specified the /home/user directory

Step 8 then says to do a "normal" install but the only choices it provides 
are "Workstation" or "Local"  I tried Workstation because Local uses up 
another 210MB of storage space.

After all this, as user I could run /home/user/OpenOffice.org1.0/soffice but 
it would hang and I had to kill it.  AND, the menus and icons did not display.

Back on the original install (step 4) I choose to include only KDE 
integration, deseleting Gnome integration.  Is that a problem?  This is a 
straw I am grasping at, a bug in the install script or something.

Either I am not doing something right or I am not impressed by the 
installation process.  Either way, I am too tired to play anymore today.

Alan

On Friday 03 May 2002 10:49 pm, you wrote:
> I found the answer (I am trying it now).
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html
>
> Alan
>
> On Friday 03 May 2002 10:39 pm, you wrote:
> > This did not work for me and my KDE desktop.
> >
> > -As root (in Konsole as 'su') I ran setup from the install files on my
> > hard drive.
> > -Installed to /usr/lib/OpenOffice.org1.0
> > -No errors during install
> > -Ran setup as user from the install files.  Aborted because it wanted to
> > install all over again.
> > -Ran /usr/lib/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup as user.  Wants to Modify, Repair
> > or Remove the software.
> >
> > So what do I do to automatically create the icons?
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > On Friday 03 May 2002 03:28 pm, you wrote:
> > > ---
> > > As with StarOffice 5.2
> > >
> > > install as root
> > >
> > > as user (not root) /install directory/setup
> > >
> > > (repeat for each user)
> > > that will automatically add OpenOffice menu items in your KDE or GNOME
> > > user menus
> > >
> > > Craig
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