Instead of runnning the normal setup, you have to run the install file 
instead. You can specify a directory...

./install /opt
and that is the network install.. Fromt here, each user has to go into the 
/opt/OpenOffice.org folder and run the setup file.

nathan

On Friday 18 October 2002 03:14 pm, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:43:16PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > apt rocks and debian stable is rock solid ( well except at that point
> > where it uninstalled open office, truly a feature, but not one I was
> > seeking at the time ).
>
> OpenOffice sucks anyway.  I just finally tried it; I see it still likes
> to install as a single-user app.  I couldn't find the "network install"
> option that was supposed to be in the installer.  Now it will only run
> as root, and terribly slow too on my Athlon 1.2 with 512 megs.  No excuse
> whatsoever for such performance.
>
> A recruiter demanded my resume in .doc format and so I imported my html
> version and fixed it all up nice and pretty, printed one and saved it in
> Word97 format.  When the recruiter printed it from actual MS Word, some
> text was going at 90 degrees up the side of the page.  I think I will try
> doing my resume in TeX one of these days, because then I can export to RTF
> and HTML and also get nice paper formatting.
>
> I also tried Ted.  It seems to be the nicest RTF editor for Linux I've seen
> - it has the important features and omits the unimportant ones, runs really
> fast and isn't bloated at all.  But it did crash, and it has a bug so that
> menu accelerators don't seem to work, which was very annoying.  I imagine
> that's a short-term thing.
>
> I also like AbiWord but it refused to import any HTML that I tried
> ("improper format" or some such, even when I had only a very simple
> document with proper head and body sections, document type header, and
> XHTML style tags).  I didn't manage to import RTF saved from Ted either, if
> memory serves.