[TriLUG] OOo1.1 and RH9

[Jeremy Portzer]

This is true for the "stock" OOo installation, but Red Hat linux RPMs
normally avoid this.  However there are still some issues to be worked
out, apparently.  There's a lot of discussion of this on the
"fedora-test-list at redhat.com" mailing list.

--Jeremy

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:53, Chris Bullock wrote:
> Try the readme on their site, you have to set it up for every user.  I 
> ran into this with the windows version a few versions back.  You do a 
> full install and then each user must do a workstation install, an 
> additional few mbs.
> HTH
> chris
> 
> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> >I had this too on my Fedora Core test2 workstation.
> >I think you can remove (rename!) the ~/.openoffice directory and then
> >the installation procedure will "complete" successfully and won't recur.
> >
> >--Jeremy
> >
> >On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:49, Ken Mink wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I installed the Rawhide OOo1.1 rpms last night on my laptop which is
> >>running RH9. The rpms installed without complaint. OpenOffice also ran
> >>fine, for the root user only. Whenever I tried to run it as a non-root
> >>user, it started the stock OOo installation script. It did this each
> >>time, even after completing the installation procedure. Has anyone else
> >>tried this and gotten it to work? I know they're the Rawhide RPMs, but I
> >>found some posts through Google that indicated that it should work.
> >>
> >>TIA,
> >>Ken
> >>    
> >>
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