Re: [Sheflug] strange happenings

[Peter John Smith <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:

> 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.
No,I bunged the lot in,(Pillock!!!)

> 
> Possibly see you today?
Yeh, I need to buy Linux for Pillocks :))
Pete
 
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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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