Thanks one and all for your help. I discovered the root ;-) of my problems. Turns out that a previous installation of OO build 641 had left .sversionrc in the user's home directory. (Strange that it wasn't in an OO subdirectory, however.) Anyway...deleted it and ran ./setup from the /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program directory. Everything worked as advertised thereafter.
BTW, detailed installation directions (in english) can be found at: http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide/en/ooo_setup_english.pdf. Paul On Tuesday 16 July 2002 10:19 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Thanks for this and other replies...only problem is there does not appear > to be a -net, --net, --net, --network, /net, or /network option for either > /tmp/install/install, /tmp/install/setup, or /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup. > Are we all talking about OO1.0? > > Running /tmp/install/install --help returns only five options: > --help > --version > --prefix==PREFIX > --single (since this installs a single user setup, I presume the default > is a network install > --interactive > > To further complicate matters, after deleting /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/ and > reinstalling the program, the program still works for root, but changing > the setuid bit (which previously allowed a normal user to launch the > program), prevents even an aborted launch, i.e., the splash screen never > appears. > > HELP!! > Paul > > On Tuesday 16 July 2002 4:38 pm, dfox wrote: > > > I am trying to install Open Office 1.0 onto a ML8.2 system. > > > > I just did that yesterday (8.1 though). Seems to work fine, didn't > > have any problems. > > > > > When I attempt to run either /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup or=20 > > > /tmp/install/setup, either as root or as a normal user, the setup > > > program= > > > > It's a two step process. /tmp/install/setup is run (as root) with the > > /net option to do a network install in /opt, or wherever else you > > want the bulk of OO to reside. > > > > The second install is done by an ordinary user as a Network installation > > into their home directory -- and the prog to run is *not* /tmp/install/ > > setup, because that was for the initial install. Rather, you need to > > run the setup program in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 (or wherever you put > > it) and choose Network install. > > > > > Paul
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