Re: newbie installation question

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:05:45AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> This part seemed to go fine.

Did you use the /net parameter?

> 
> >Then as user I ran "setup" from that directory and
> >it created in the user's home directory a small localized file structure
> >with symlinks to /usr/local/...'s files.
> 
> 
> There is only one setup (with an accompanying symlink) which behaves the 
> same as the setup which did the install.  It recognizes that there is 
> now a version installed and gives me the choices to modify, repair or 
> uninstall.  In trying possibilities as user, repair tries unsuccessfully 
> to replace many object files but can't because of permissions.

Try running /usr/local/openoffice/program/soffice as user and see what
it does.

Johann
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