[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Download To Be Removed (FYI)
News about it: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-25-006-26-NW-DT-SW to download: http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/get/get.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2
Es Domingo 24 Febrero 2002 22:41, Kaj Haulrich va escriure: Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I get the following error: The following file could not be found: /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc. On a whim, I logged in as root and ran it with no problems. The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? Uninstall it and reinstall with /net parameter. Run /usr/local/soffice/program/soffice as user and that's it... -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2, OT ;p
FemmeFatale wrote: Does this work in other wm's like E? and if not, how can i make links on a desktop in E? I've tried with no success as yet . TIA Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: SNIP Now, having Star Office only makes sense if you run a graphical interface under the X server, for example KDE or Gnome. So it is convenient to create a link to the soffice - executable. To do this, drag the file soffice and drop it onto the background, then select the option link here. You'll now have Star Office right at your fingertips ! Ma belle FemmeFatale, I don't know anything about E, sorry. However in other window-managers like Enlightenment, Blackbox, IceWM it's merely a matter of editing the rc-files. Personally I'm very fond of XFce which is fast and reliable. Here it's piece of cake to add an entry, i.e. Star Office to the menu : just right-click the up-arrows and add an entry + its command (here : Star Office / command : /home/(user)/office52/soffice). That's all ! Bonne chance ! Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2
star off ice needs to be installed for each individual user as far as i know but i'm not an expert by any means chris - Original Message - From: Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I get the following error: The following file could not be found: /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc. On a whim, I logged in as root and ran it with no problems. The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? Thanks, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2
On Monday 25 February 2002 20:13, you wrote: star off ice needs to be installed for each individual user as far as i know but i'm not an expert by any means chris - Original Message - From: Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I get the following error: The following file could not be found: /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc. On a whim, I logged in as root and ran it with no problems. The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? Thanks, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Yes, it must be initialized (for want of a better word) for each user. You should be able to go to the kpanel office Staroffice. Once you click on Star Office it will install for the user, a much faster setup time. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2
Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I get the following error: The following file could not be found: /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc. On a whim, I logged in as root and ran it with no problems. The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? Thanks, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2
sön 2002-02-24 klockan 12.41 skrev Pauljames Dimitriu: The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? If I remember correctly you have to run the installer with the -net option, then run it again (without the -net option) for each user. I.e each user has to run it. Good Luck, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2
On Sunday 24 February 2002 06:41 am, Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I get the following error: The following file could not be found: /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc. On a whim, I logged in as root and ran it with no problems. The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? I run /usr/lib/office52_en/program/setup for each user (su to user). Yours may be /usr/local/office52_en/setup -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2, OT ;p
Does this work in other wm's like E? and if not, how can i make links on a desktop in E? I've tried with no success as yet . TIA Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: SNIP Now, having Star Office only makes sense if you run a graphical interface under the X server, for example KDE or Gnome. So it is convenient to create a link to the soffice - executable. To do this, drag the file soffice and drop it onto the background, then select the option link here. You'll now have Star Office right at your fingertips ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 panel freezes on load in KDE
I can't remember how I cleared the message, but I do remember being extremely aggravated. I saw the message one time when I was shutting everthing down, the splash screen shutdown first then the message. I don't remember how I got to the message to clear it though. Sorry. Linus On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:42 pm, Andy Gay wrote: So, if there is an error message behind the panel, how did you manage to access it and close it down? When I called up StarOffice 5.2 in KDE, it froze in the loading with the title panel, which I could not get rid of without logging out. I uninstallted SO5.2 and reinstalled it, but it is doing the same thing. Anybody know what the deal is? Appreciate any help. Andy Gay Inspiron 2500 Make sure that you don't have an error message or some other message behind the title panel. I went through the same aggravation once and just had a message that needed clearing. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 panel freezes on load
I found the solution to this. I just ran /home/me/office52/setup The SO wizard came up and repaired the installation in a snap! Thanks for all the suggestions. Andy Gay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 panel freezes on load in KDE
When I called up StarOffice 5.2 in KDE, it froze in the loading with the title panel, which I could not get rid of without logging out. I uninstallted SO5.2 and reinstalled it, but it is doing the same thing. Anybody know what the deal is? Appreciate any help. Andy Gay Inspiron 2500 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 panel freezes on load in KDE
So, if there is an error message behind the panel, how did you manage to access it and close it down? When I called up StarOffice 5.2 in KDE, it froze in the loading with the title panel, which I could not get rid of without logging out. I uninstallted SO5.2 and reinstalled it, but it is doing the same thing. Anybody know what the deal is? Appreciate any help. Andy Gay Inspiron 2500 Make sure that you don't have an error message or some other message behind the title panel. I went through the same aggravation once and just had a message that needed clearing. Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8
as sridhar pointed out .. the normal install will only be for the user who installed it. ie. if user foo installs it .. only he nor root nor any other user will be able to access it. to allow all users to use star office.. u will have to do it from root.. if i remember correctly su wont work coz u will be using the user's home dir. to enable other users u will have to read the documentation. plus, i believe the open source version www.openoffice.org has put the options u r looking for in the setup. it is now at v6.28 (i think) enjoy - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8 On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:11 +, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the permissions but they will not stick. I tried un-installing SO5.2 which it told me it had done. I then tried re-installing but this time from a user session. It then tells me that it is still installed. No matter what I try I can't resolve this problem. Can someone please tell how do I get rid of StarOffice completely so that I can start again and then how can I get it to work from a user session. TIA Stewart There is a flag you need to put on the end of the command to initiate the installation. I think it is -net. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:30:50 +0200, Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as sridhar pointed out .. the normal install will only be for the user who installed it. ie. if user foo installs it .. only he nor root nor any other user will be able to access it. That's right. to allow all users to use star office.. u will have to do it from root.. if i remember correctly su wont work coz u will be using the user's home dir. Sorry, but that is not correct. A su to root gives full root privileges on that tty, including use of the root home dir. With su, there is almost _no_ need whatsoever to log in as root. The last time I logged in as root was over six months ago, and that was because I had messed-up my system and I was booting with a rescue disc. An su installation will work fine (that's how I did it). to enable other users u will have to read the documentation. I did a quick search, and I found that the parameter to enable a network installation is /net. plus, i believe the open source version www.openoffice.org has put the options u r looking for in the setup. it is now at v6.28 (i think) Sun is turning the OpenOffice.org code into StarOffice 6 (kind of like how Netscape turns Mozilla into Netscape 6). A StarOffice 6 beta is due out next month. enjoy - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8 On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:11 +, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the permissions but they will not stick. I tried un-installing SO5.2 which it told me it had done. I then tried re-installing but this time from a user session. It then tells me that it is still installed. No matter what I try I can't resolve this problem. Can someone please tell how do I get rid of StarOffice completely so that I can start again and then how can I get it to work from a user session. TIA Stewart There is a flag you need to put on the end of the command to initiate the installation. I think it is -net. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8
Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the permissions but they will not stick. I tried un-installing SO5.2 which it told me it had done. I then tried re-installing but this time from a user session. It then tells me that it is still installed. No matter what I try I can't resolve this problem. Can someone please tell how do I get rid of StarOffice completely so that I can start again and then how can I get it to work from a user session. TIA Stewart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:11 +, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the permissions but they will not stick. I tried un-installing SO5.2 which it told me it had done. I then tried re-installing but this time from a user session. It then tells me that it is still installed. No matter what I try I can't resolve this problem. Can someone please tell how do I get rid of StarOffice completely so that I can start again and then how can I get it to work from a user session. TIA Stewart There is a flag you need to put on the end of the command to initiate the installation. I think it is -net. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Staroffice 5.2
Hello! I tried using StarOffice 5.2, and it sounds like it is rather buggy. At least the display is not good. The piece of text around the cursor is partly hidden, backspace leaves some black pixels (i.e. it does not eras prefectly) etc. Is there a way to get it work fine? Thanks, Pascal
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0 - major problems!
Hi there, a few weeks back I installed Mandrake 8.0 (fresh, clean install). Some days later I installed StarOffice 5.2 (from sun.com) and found it to be unusable. Here are the symptoms: Any text I enter or any text in opened documents doesn't display correctly. The letters themselves are overlapping, everything is crunched horizontally. Changing fonts does not help. Changing the paper size does not help. In fact, a normal letter size document is only 8 inches wide (that's what the horizontal ruler of SO says), not 11 inches (as the paper settings say). And changing the paper settings or font size does not make things better since the letters are still overlapping then. - Star Office did work perfectly on my system under 7.1 - problem appears in GNOME as well as KDE - problems also occur in recent versions of OpenOffice - other word processors don't seem to have any problems - changing the printer driver/settings did do nothing - changing the X version did not do anything either - changing the Screen Resolution did not help (btw, my graphics card is a ATI Rage 128 AGP) - a completely new install of MDK8.0 and SO5.2 did not help me - but still I couldn't find anyone online who had the same problems Help me! What could be causing these strange behaviors of SO? I will have to write lots of papers during the next few weeks.. Thanks in advance for your help! Daniel
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2
I do the installation (root mode), but I can't use this program as "other user". What can I Do to use this like simple user ? Lcio Costa _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 - KDE integration kinda flakey
Hello, I recently installed StarOffice 5.2 (SO) on my Linux-Mandrake 7.2 system, and I must say it is really cool. The only problem I have with it are some inconsistencies and cosmetic problems with its integration into KDE. The folder entry for SO in the K menu does not have an icon to the left of its name like the rest of the entries in the menu. I figured I could fix this using the menu editor (menudrake), but the entry for SO does not show up at all in the menu editor. Worse yet if you edit anything with the menu editor then save your changes the SO entry is completely removed from the K menu. This makes me think that SO setup program inserted items into the K menu by some non-standard unsupported means. I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me how to clean this up so that menudrake can see and manupulate the SO entries in the K menu. BTW When I installed SO I did the net install option as root which placed the whole 250MB SO install in /usr/share/office52. I then logged into my normal user account and ran /usr/share/office52/program/setup which installed about 3MB of stuff in ~/office52. Thanks Much David Nelson
Re: [[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Shortcomings]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A recent posting on this list asked what problems the person could expect with StarOffice 5.2. The first thing I would say is completely ignore Sun's claim that the product is compatible with Microsoft Office 97 or 2000. While in theory you can save files to and read files from Microsoft Word (doc), Microsoft Excel (xls) and Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), the conversions are completely unsatisfactory. Below is a list of the problems, I have discovered to date as I try to work with StarOffice at home and Microsoft Office 2000 at work. snip for the sake of bandwith preservation === You're right!! M$ Office Sucks!! ;o) Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 printing
Till Kamppeter wrote: See http://www.mandrakeforum.com/myarticle.php3?sid=20001109145914 Thread: Star Office 5.2 vs. CUPS Till Ed Santiago wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.2 and have the updates installed so I am running the current version of KDE and CUPS etc. I can print to my Epson Stylus Color 400 printer with KWord and the test page when configuring a printer with DrakeConf works just fine. I cant get StarOffice to print at all. It says it has printed but my printer does nothing. When I used Mandrake 7.1 I didnt have this problem. Anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance, Ed i dont have any ideas for u but do u like kword. can u give us a little review :)
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 printing
See http://www.mandrakeforum.com/myarticle.php3?sid=20001109145914 Thread: Star Office 5.2 vs. CUPS Till Ed Santiago wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.2 and have the updates installed so I am running the current version of KDE and CUPS etc. I can print to my Epson Stylus Color 400 printer with KWord and the test page when configuring a printer with DrakeConf works just fine. I cant get StarOffice to print at all. It says it has printed but my printer does nothing. When I used Mandrake 7.1 I didnt have this problem. Anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance, Ed
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 printing
I had the same problem but solved this way: logged on as root opened Soffice SPADMIN Selected Connect, I noticed that was on a different default nd not my printer name. Selevted my printer name that I installed under CUPS. Selected test page in order to save the settings. The test page came out OK Then run up soffice and printed a page and all was well. Nev Ed Santiago wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.2 and have the updates installed so I am running the current version of KDE and CUPS etc. I can print to my Epson Stylus Color 400 printer with KWord and the test page when configuring a printer with DrakeConf works just fine. I cant get StarOffice to print at all. It says it has printed but my printer does nothing. When I used Mandrake 7.1 I didnt have this problem. Anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance, Ed
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 printing
I installed Mandrake 7.2 and have the updates installed so I am running the current version of KDE and CUPS etc. I can print to my Epson Stylus Color 400 printer with KWord and the test page when configuring a printer with DrakeConf works just fine. I cant get StarOffice to print at all. It says it has printed but my printer does nothing. When I used Mandrake 7.1 I didnt have this problem. Anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance, Ed
[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Available - but site is overloaded.
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