[PLUG] OpenOffice/StarOffice system wide install?

[Rich Shepard]

On 22 May 2002, Peter W wrote:

> 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)?

  I'll tell you what I did here and you can decide if it will work for you.

  I installed OO-1.0.1 in an nfs-shared filesystem, /usr1/. The installation
routine (I *think* it was workstation that I selected) placed the startup
script in:

/usr1/open-office/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice

  Then I created a soft link on each workstation that pointed to this file;
e.g.,

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/soffice 
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           51 May  8 18:14 /usr/local/bin/soffice ->
/usr1/open-office/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice*

  Finally, I pointed the appropriate icon for each user's copy of xfce to
'soffice'. Because /usr/local/bin/ is in each user's $PATH, it's found and
another instance of OO is opened.

  I've no idea if this is the "right" way, the "best" way or anything other
than it works. And, I have OO in a single directory where upgrades will be
easy to manage.

HTH,

Rich