[PLUG] OpenOffice/StarOffice system wide install?

sean_whitney at bigfoot.com sean_whitney at bigfoot.com
Wed May 22 15:31:36 UTC 2002


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:05:49AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
Hmm, so did you do a network installation, and then a workstation
installation?


Sean


> 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
> 
> 
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