i had the same problem at first but got it to work.. finally.
first, i tried opening it from the konsole, it did nothing.
just like pushing enter on an empty line.
then i remembered that at the end of the install it said some package was
not installed, ( "adaba" ) .. so, what the heck, i went to their webpage
again and downloaded that "adaba" stuff and installed it.
now it works just fine. i configured the link on my desktop to
run the link from a console, and it starts ok.
note: i did not have this startup problem until i installed JRE.
at first i installed Soffice without their JRE and it worked
fine....
>From: Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Mandrake-newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] re: staroffice
>Date: 09 Nov 2001 08:03:49 -0600
>
>On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 23:15, Harry Ablejoy wrote:
> > Dave i did default install and clicked on soffice still will not open
>like
> > linux but installing software will take a little time for me.
> > Thanks
>
>Can you run it from the command line? Open a console, and type in the
>full path to soffice, which would look like this on my laptop:
>[dave@dedannshae dave]$ /usr/local/staroffice6.0/program/soffice
>
>If Star Office launches, great! All you need to do is create a launcher
>icon on your desktop, that points to soffice.
>
>If Star Office does not launch, I would recommend uninstalling (just
>delete the whole staroffice6.0 directory), and then reinstall with the
>/net switch. This must all be done as root, of course. After StarOffice
>is installed, you can logout and login as a regular user, then run the
>setup program per my previous message, and choose the network install
>option to configure it for personal use.
>
>If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
>
>Dave
>--
>... we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection
>by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
>I do not doubt that natural selection acted in building our oversized
>brains -- and I am equally confident that our brains became large as
>an adaptation for definite roles (probably a complex set of interacting
>functions). But these assumptions do not lead to the notion, often
>uncritically embraced by strict Darwinians, that all major capacities
>of the brain must arise as direct products of natural selection.
> -- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man"
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