For 5.1, I went as root, and ran ./setup /net, then when it was finished, I
logged in as a normal user and ran ./setup from the .../Office51/bin
John Ward
At 01:12 PM 7/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Isn't this how 5.1 worked? If you did the install as a user, each user
>doing the install ended up with their own copy of StarOffice, but if you
>did a multi-user install as root, only one copy of the binaries was
>installed with each user running a setup that copied only what was
>necessary for that user's personalization and data.
>
>Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > The one thing about Windows that I liked more than in Linux was
> > installing programs. If you are honest most will admit that installing
> > programs in Linux can be both fustrating and exasperating.
> > Well someone has at last shown a light at the end of the tunnel.
> > Sun has released Star Office 5.2. I download it for both Windows and for
> > Linux. Yesterday I installed in Win2000 and today I decided to try the
> > install in Linux, hoping that it would not require to much hair pulling.
> > Do you know what I had to do to get Star Office to install in Linux? I
> > had to click on the file. It actually had it's own installation program and
> > installed itself. The GUI was even the same as that used in the Win
> > installation. I was shocked. Happy but shocked. I had never before seen a
> > Linux program do this.
> > My one hope now is that more companies and developers will follow Sun's
> > example and treat Linux users with the same degree of concern and
> support as
> > they show Window users.
> > If you want to try it the URL is www.sun.com/staroffice
> > The Linux download is 93MB and you need to run the installation program as
> > user not as root.
> >
> > Charles :-)
>
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