Civileme, your instructions worked quite well and SO6 is behaving nicely on the installation I tried them on. MUCH THANKS!
HOWEVER, uninstalling SO6 took gnome and a number of other things with it, Is there any way to uninstall the SO6 without losing so much else in the process? I still have one more to do. Hopefully, Bob civileme wrote: > (SNIP) > You cannot upgrade to SO 6.0. System-wide upgrades are likely to cause > some problems anyway but here is the method for SO 6.0 so that you can > run it afterward.... It is not an upgrade artifact in this case but an > improper installation. > > 1. Uninstall SO6 > 2. Look for two files named .sversionrc and .user60.rdb (note the leading > dots!) and delete them if you find them (I found them in my home path) > 3. In an xterm window, log in as root (su) > 4. urpmi staroffice-en > > 5. /usr/lib/office60_en/setup to start the setup script > 6. select the local (>200MB) installation. Change the path for this > installation to /opt/staroffice6.0 > 7. complete the installation (btw, if you don't have a Java runtime > environment installed, you can do so by clicking the INSTALL button on > the JRE > screen) > 8. exit > 9. execute the setup script again as a local user, and this time select > workstation installation. > > If you do not activate it exactly this way, you will have permissions > problems with saving backup files and such. > > Please not that you can login as another user and run the setup script > (just click the menu button for Staroffice writer) to set it up as > another workstation installation for that user. > > Civileme > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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