PLUG-discuss digest, Vol 1 #2204 - 10 msgs

Just install it from user and it should work fine. That's what I did.
> Message: 10
> From: Alan Dayley <alandd@mindspring.com>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice 1.0 creating menu/icons
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 23:14:04 -0700
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> 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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