Robert, I have also the powerPack Edition but I had a staroffice file
downloaded before from sun URL and it works fine. Did you install it as root
and then as user? or you just make a whole install?
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
El Dom 01 Jul 2001 23:42, escribiste:
> Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased
> Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty satisfied. Having worked in the Windows
> world for the past few years it's great to see other operating systems
> coming about. The install went very well and over all I'm impressed with
> the ease Mandrake 8.0 loaded up, but (Here it comes,,, always a but) After
> installing Staroffice 5.2 and trying to open it my system hangsssss. This
> requires a reboot to get things running again. I've been to the Sun site
> and the only thing I've found is a recommendation to go back to a different
> Kernel and that StarOffice is coming out with (Who knows when) an upgrade.
> Therefore there will not be a patch.... Has this been encountered by
> others? also Why would Mandrake include it with their system if it wouldn't
> run properly?
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> Robert
