OpenOffice 1.0 creating menu/icons

Sun, 05 May 2002 10:39:59 -0400

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 <gracchus@inficad.com> 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

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