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Re: [Sheflug] open-office



On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:27:53 +0100
Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:15:53PM +0100, mark.l.johnson [at] barclays.co.uk
> wrote:
> > just downloaded openoffice 1.0, a nice package. i am very impressed!!
> > 
> > but....
> > 
> > it won't open m$ office files! when i try and open a word or excel
> > document(office 2000) it crashes with an 'unrecoverable error'
> 
> Yup, OpenOffice won't run at all for my user.
> 
> Have you tried running it as root? It appears to work fine on my
> (Debian) system when I run it as root.

I ran 'setup -net' as root and installed into /opt

As a normal user I did a workstation install (3 and a bit megs) into my
home directory.

If you do use root's installation as the basis for a workstation install
you shouldn't run soffice as root (why would you be doing normal work as
root anyway?)

Works fine with the odd Word files I have kicking around, I don't know
what version of Word they were produced with though. It seems a bit faster
than 641.

I'll bring the CD to the installfest if anybody wants to try it.

--Andrew

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