Re: [Sheflug] strange happenings

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

NO NO NO NO!!! Don't get rid of that! When you install SO to your home
directory, it only copies about 3.7Mb of stuff, such as a personal work
folder and a pile of links to /opt/Office51. The actual software actually
resides in /OPT.

This is so that as many people as you like can run SO on a machine, each
with their own personal settings, work folder, etc. and still only have
one 170Mb lump of software on the HDD.

To get an icon as root (you'll need so install it to set up the
printers) log in as root, and run /opt/Office51/bin/setup

This will do everything for you.

Oh, btw, did you select workstation install, not local install, didn't
you. Local install DOES copy all 100+Mb of Office51 to your home
directory, thus making two copies. The workstation install copies only the
small bit.

Possibly see you today?

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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On Fri, 5 May 2000, Peter John Smith wrote:

> Eve'nin all
> 
> So as you all know from my frequent cries for help, I am in the prosess of
> setting up suse 6.4.
> Only real problem I have is setting up printer but that'll do some other time,
> Thing is one of the things I have done is install star office 5.1. The
> installation seems to have worked ok as it now resides in opt/office5.1, So far
> so good. But I could not get it to run I assumed like the PC or Atari it was
> just a matter of clicking an executable. Some one put me right on that and I
> now know I have run a script,not found how yet but........
> So at the open day on thursday one of the many tips I was given was not to run
> as "root" which I have been doing, So tonight I added new user me :) the
> strange thing is that when I booted up as user There big as you like was an
> icon with staroffice and a paper with a question mark on it. Never being able
> to resist an icon I cliked and was offered the chance to setup staroffice, I
> did so and now have a nice staroffice icon and the prog works fine (luv it) yet
> as root nowt. Now for the advice bit, I now have a folder opt/ofice 5.1 and a
> folder home/pete/office5.1, can I delete the one in opt by simply chucking it
> in the trashcan or do I have to deinstall it,if so how.
> Ta
> Pete.
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