Didn't work for me either.  I guess I'll just have to wait until someone
makes some RPM's or something, but it is quite disappointing.  

-Brandon

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 21:43, Brian Wright wrote:
> Unfortuneately, that didn't help me. :-(  I did ./setup /net, installed
> to /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0, and when it came to registering the
> components, it froze my system. :-(.  I'm pretty upset by the
> experience.. as far as I'm concerned, this program is 100% worthless.
> :-(
> 
> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 19:19, Omer van der Horst Jansen wrote:
> > Unfortunately the OpenOffice README doesn't explain how the install
> > procedure works. Google turned up this page:
> > 
> > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/setup-linux.html
> > 
> > That page basically tells you to do a network setup using
> > 
> > # ./setup /net
> > 
> > as root from the install directory as unpacked from the .tar.gz archive.
> > This will install the application files in a directory of your choice,
> > for example /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.
> > 
> > Then, run
> > 
> > $ /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/programs/setup
> > 
> > as a normal user. You'll have to select the option to put about 2 MB of
> > files into a directory in your home directory. From that point on,
> > everything worked. Run /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/programs/soffice to start
> > the core application.
> > 
> > I didn't get any symlinks or Gnome menu options, I had to create those 
> > by hand.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> >     Omer
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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