Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

[DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com>]

Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:

> At 2002-05-11T02:59:10Z, DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com> writes:
> 
> >> IMO, OpenOffice is BAD (Broken as Designed) for multi-user operating
> >> systems.
> 
> > There's definitely *something* that still needs to be worked on.
> 
> I'm not sure why people are saying this.  In the last 24 hours, I've
> installed OOo (yes, that's the new abbreviation for Open Office) on a
> Windows 2000 Pro machine and a Debian workstation.  I used the -net option
> on Windows (as Administrator), and Debian seems to install OOo with -net by
> default.  Then, it's a simple matter of running the setup program as an end
> user, letting it copy a couple of megs of data to that user's home
> directory, and using Open Office in all its happiness.


Well, first off, I don't think I should have to copy 2megs of data into
my home directory... a few K of config files? Sure. Two megs of who
knows what, however, makes me very skeptical.
Besides, and most important, this does *not work*! At least not after
installing the .deb package.


> 
> > _Can_ I install openoffice as an unpriviledged user (the deb, that
> > is). Last I tried, regular users couldn't install packages via apt-get.
> 
> No more easily than any other Debian package.


Any other Debian package, however, tends to actually work after I
install it as root... I said the above in response to someone who
suggested installing as user (I wasn't quite sure what was meant by
that).


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