[TriLUG] Trilug Email's (Enough)

[Sean Reid]

While I appreciate all of the helpful tips that these messages provide, can we all please go back to posting to the board instead of emailling.

my Net Admin brought it up today!

Sean


8/15/2001 6:05:40 PM, Bill Vinson <billvinson at nc.rr.com> wrote:

>Well, I can't certify that this will work :)
>
>I haven't used Star/Open Office in a long time, so I could be wrong ;)
>
>Let's see what the experts say...
>
>Bill
>
>On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, rpjday wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Bill Vinson wrote:
>> 
>> > I believe it expects to find the java executables in your path.  Can you
>> > type 'java' and actually have it execute?  If not, I would suggest
>> > adding the /usr/java/bin/whatever to your path and trying the installer
>> > again.
>> >
>> > Bill
>> 
>> i haven't had a chance to try this yet, but i'd be awfully annoyed if
>> it solved the problem, for a couple of reasons.
>> 
>> first, the fact that i want to run open office (which apparently wants
>> a JRE) in no way implies that i, as a user, would ever theoretically
>> want to run java directly.  so requiring that it be in my search
>> path would be asking me to make available to execute a program that
>> i never plan on running.
>> 
>> and second, during the OO installation, the very dialog that complains
>> that there is no JRE also gives you a browse window, which clearly
>> seems to suggest you can tell OO where to find the JRE.  which, of
>> course, fails miserably even when you take OO to the JRE directory
>> and rub its little nose in it.
>> 
>> i just posted to the OO discussion list, so we'll see if i'm just
>> forgetting something obvious.
>> 
>> rday
>> 
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