[PLUG] OpenOffice/StarOffice system wide install?

Peter W shark at sharky.dyndns.org
Wed May 22 09:58:12 UTC 2002


Hello,

Does anyone know of a way to install OpenOffice (or StarOffice - from
now on i'll just say OpenOffice, but this applies to both) on a computer
in such a way that all users automatically have icons in their menu's
which will open the program (and preferably so the 2 MB ~/OpenOffice
directory from "Workstation Install" is not needed)?

This is for school computers, which have lots of users (who are K-8) -
so having each user run the install is out of the question IMHO. 


I thought about just doing the "workstation install" for one user and
then moving the ~/OpenOffice directory which was created to say, /opt/,
and then making a symlink from each users ~/OpenOffice/ to
/opt/OpenOffice/, but it seems that the username is repeated quite often
in files within ~/OpenOffice.  And it seems that OpenOffice checks for
~/OpenOffice and starts the installer if that directory isn't found.

Any ideas on this?


Thanks, 

~Peter

 





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