Re: Openoffice.org
On Thursday 23 October 2003 02:07 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:27:13 -0700, Richard Harke
> >>>>> <rharke@earthlink.net> said:
>
> Richard> I'm going to give a talk/show-and-tell about Itanium to my
> Richard> local linux users group and thought that I could use the
> Richard> presentation capabilities in openoffice.org. I looked
> Richard> through this list's archives and learned about
> Richard> /emul/ia32-linux. between that and the lack of any port
> Richard> info on the openoffice.org web site I guess that it only is
> Richard> available in compatibility mode. This is actually ok as I
> Richard> can then talk about compatibility mode which is a big issue
> Richard> for some people.
>
> Richard> However the question is: How to install? I have the
> Richard> distribution binary for ia32-linux with its install script.
> Richard> I'm guessing I could do: chroot /emul/ia32-linux ./install
>
> Richard> then maybe have to make (a few) symlinks
>
> Richard> Does this make sense?
>
> There is no need to install it in /emul/ia32-linux. You can install
> it pretty much wherever you want (e.g., I installed it in
> ~/OpenOffice.org1.1). To get the nice anti-aliased fonts, I usually have to
> explicitly invoke spadmin and register the TrueType fonts.
>
> --david
Thanks much. I put it in /opt as suggested by OO.o and it works
just fine. No symlinks required.
Richard
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