Re: Where to install StarOffice

[Tom Snell <gracchus@inficad.com>]

No, SO installed exactly where you told it to, and that was the problem!

Don't feel bad....there's a quirk in StarOffice's install that, if I'm not 
mistaken (and I may be, haven't checked recently), still has not been well 
documented by Sun (though the answer is on most "how-to's" around the Web).

Here's how you do it:

1) Log in as root.

2) From within whichever directory the SO install files are located (i.e., cd 
to that directory), run "./setup net" from the command line (no quotes, of 
course, and no dash before 'net').  This will install the "network" version 
of StarOffice (i.e., the 'full' version).  I think the default directory to 
which the "office52" directory is installed is /opt.

3) Next, log out of root and log back in under your regular username.

4) From the command line again, cd to /opt/office52/bin (I think that's 
right).

5) From there, run "./setup" at the command line......NO "net" this time!

6) As I recall, the SO install will prompt you to choose what kind of install 
you want.....I think it's labeled 'workgroup' or something....in any case, 
it's the smaller install, about 2+ MB or so, which will be installed to your 
home directory.  This is where all your "personal" settings and documents 
that you create with SO will be stored.

After you run the "./setup net" from root on any system, all users on that 
system can subsequently run their own "./setup" and use SO.  For now, I 
suggest you delete SO completely and start over, following the above 
instructions.

Hope this helps.

Tom Snell



On Friday 13 April 2001 11:28, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> I installed StarOffice, the setup program asked me where to install it, I
> was logged in as root and the default path on the program was
> /root/office52 and I figured that if I wanted to use it under another
> username it needed to be somewhere else, so I changed that to
> /usr/office52...
>
> Now that it is installed it works fin if i login or su to root, but if I'm
> under my regular user name it won't work, sayin that some files are missing
> in the /usr/office52/user, it want's to restore the files but I guess it
> can't becouse of permission issues...
>
> My question is: Shouldn't all the user files be stored in /home/myusername?
> Did I install StarOffice in the wrong place? or should I give me
> permissions to write to those directories?
>
> Thanks!