Re: Running openoffice as regular user?
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 04:55, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:26:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 03:12, Chris Halls wrote:
> > > This is a very large package with many twists and turns to it. We can't get
> > > it all running in one go - the .debs are up there to save people having to
> > > do the upstream install themselves, but the .deb does not yet fix many of
> > > the problems caused by upstream.
> >
> > Are all/most of the difficulties caused by the fact that the
> > pre-compiled binaries straight from www.openoffice.org expect
> > to install under ~ ?
>
> No, just some :)
>
> These problems come to mind immediately:
>
> - Own directory structure when doing a systemwide install
> - Various shared library versioning problems (e.g. libodbc)
> - Expects to be running on SuSE: it tries to put KDE stuff in ~/.kde2
> - Font cache problems and other font issues
> - Hardcoded variables and paths in various places
> - Non-free parts such as libgpc, java, GIF creation
> - Doesn't always work under Debian Gnome
> - Hangs complete machine on S3 Savage with Xfree 4.1 by default
> - No systemwide menus/mailcap (John M Cooper has been working on this for
> us)
> - Can't add/remove compenents from a systemwide install just by
> adding/removing files
> - Own localisation system with quirks
Ah. Has openoffice.org been receptive to patches that make OO 1.0
"play nicely"?
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