I don't know - it was very very easy. 1 - download tarball 2 - unzip tarball (tar zxvf OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz) as root 3 - cd into newly created directory as root 3 - read README & setup as root 4 - '-net' option is now the default...single user setup is now optional - ./setup [/opt or /usr/local or any install directory] as root 5 - as user... /installdirectory/setup 6 - choose workstation setup (locate jre if necessary) Craig On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 07:39, alandd@mindspring.com wrote: > I experienced these sorts of problems when I did the "-net" and then user setup. I simply did not work for all the reasons you describe. > > I ended up following someone's suggestion and, after deleting everything from previous attempts, just ran ./setup as the user. All works fine now. Of course, that means it is installed just for that one user but the shared "-net" install is broken so... > > Alan > > On Sat, 04 May 2002 20:17:06 -0700 Tom Snell wrote: > Alan, > > Yes, I think you missed a critical step, one that has always existed in > StarOffice, and one that makes the install somewhat unintuitive. The > installation instructions are quite clear now, but it's still easy to > miss it. This is what you'll need to do at this point: > > 1) Log in as root, run ./setup from wherever you installed > OpenOffice1.0, and choose to UNINSTALL everything. > > 2) Once you've completely uninstalled everything you'd installed to > begin with, start all over, but this time, after logging in as ROOT, run > "./setup -net". It will want to install to "/root", but you'll want to > put it elsewhere, of course (I opted for /opt...but you may want to go > with "/usr/lib", as I think the executable startup scripts are looking > for that directory by default...anyone had any problems starting the > apps once they're installed?). > > 3) Once you've completed the installation as root, then log back in > under your user account, go to the OpenOffice1.0 directory, and this > time run only "./setup" (notice you are now dropping the "-net" switch). > Select the "Workstation" option this time, as that will install some > basic files in an OpenOffice directory in your HOME directory. > > 4) This SHOULD work (it has in every install of StarOffice I've done > over the past few years), but I've run into some problems myself. > 'Write' came up when I first completed the install, but after I closed > it out, I've never been able to get any of the apps to run again. And > I've tried from the K menu, from CLI, etc., etc. I was getting 'library > not found' errors, so I softlinked OO's 'program' folder (which contains > a bunch of static libraries, plus the binaries) to /user/lib/openoffice, > then added the path to /etc/ld.so.conf and ran /sbin/ldconfig (as root > of course). But I still can't get the OO apps to run, even though I > think I followed all the instructions properly (I even got OO to point > to my JRE 1.3.1 properly). So I'm at a loss at this point....the > OpenOffice.org guys changed the scripts around, or I'm not doing > something right.... > > Tom Snell > > > -- > __ > ----/ / _ > ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ > --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > > Red Hat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-21 XFree86 4.1.0 KDE 2.2.2 > > ========================================================= > One Net to rule them all, One Net to find them, > One Net to bring them all, and Open Standards bind them. > ========================================================= > > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss