OpenOffice 1.0 creating menu/icons

[Craig White]

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 <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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