Hi Brian,
I agree with you. The installation instructions for OOo is not in its 'obvious'
places. Anyway, you can find them
at their website at http://OpenOffice.org if you look hard enough.
But if you are in a rush, i cut up a portion of an INSTALL file which i made earlier.
I don't know what OOo
version you have but the one i made was for 641D. For OOo 1.0 the /normal directory
was renamed to /install.
Hope this helps,
Phil
+++ Installing on a Linux Machine
1. Select a directory where you want to install OpenOffice. A good place is
/opt/openoffice
2. Copy the tarred-gzipped file: /Linux/install641d_linux_intel.tar.gz from this CD
into
your openoffice directory
3. Extract the files by typing (you need to login here as root):
tar -xzvf install641d_linux_intel.tar.gz
4. In your install directory in (1) , proceed to ../normal
(this is where the unpacked files now reside).
A. Network Installation: Use this option if you want to share the OpenOffice
binaries
across all your users in your machine (highly recommended). Login as root then
type:
./setup -net
Follow all prompts.
The network installation program now resides in the ../OpenOffice.org641
directory.
After the network installation, you will then need to install OpenOffice for your
individual users. To do this, a user must log in and then proceed to the
folder where the network installation program now resides (../OpenOffice.org641).
You will then have to repeat this step to install OpenOffice for all your users.
To install for a particular user, type:
./setup
Installation program then creates the necessary files and folders in the user's
home directory.
B. Stand Alone: Installs binaries in user's home directories (takes a lot of space,
not a good idea)
Login as user then type:
./setup
The installation program now resides in the ../OpenOffice.org641 folder of the
user's home directory.
5. Running OpenOffice
-Proceed to your user's home directory:
-Look for the file ../OpenOffice.org641/soffice and click on it to launch
OpenOffice.
"Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted last 5/21/02 9:14:20 PM as follows:
>
>I've got openoffice problems that _might_ be related to LTSP
>
>I'm a new openoffice user so it might have been something I've done
>
>I installed openoffice as root, but I can't run it through ltsp as any user
>other than root
>
>I don't have a Xwindow console on the server so I can't check it there (to
>determine if it's LTSP related or not)
>
>I think part of my problem is that I couldn't find any installation
>instructions for openoffice (with or without LTSP)
>
>
>Any help or urls to installation instructions would be appreciated
>
>
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