Re: problem running StarOffice as non-root
Hi,
I've had exactly the same problem as you have.
I can only say what other users told you.
Deinstall soffice and install it as root with ./setup /net if you
have not done it yet. Then do a ./setup with every user you want.
bye
Agner-Nichols wrote:
> I installed StarOffice (5.2) as root to an i586 running Debian with a 2.2.12
> kernel and KDE as the desktop (using Corel 1.1.2). It runs fine as root,
> but I cannot figure out how to get it to run as non-root. Have tried
> symlinking /usr/local/office52/soffice to the user's home (and that just
> starts the install script that errors because it can't find
> /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc) as well symlinking
> /root/.kde/share/applnk/staroffice to the user's home and neither worked.
> (Looks like there is read/execute for user throughout the path for the first
> strategy, and yeah, I really didn't think the symlink to /root would work,
> but what the heck)
>
> Any ideas? Is this a general problem with any non-deb binary I install? I
> glanced through the O'Reilley Running Linux to see if it had anything about
> installing/managing binaries and didn't notice anything.
>
> thanks in advance
>
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