Re: [authors] M139 is out

[Jan Wilson]

I said (foolishly):
It installed OK in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy), but it won't shut down.  It 
will create, edit, and save a file, but when I try to close the 
application, it won't close.  I have to manually kill the process.  It 
doesn't take anything with it, but I'd say that's a showstopper  ;-)

Actually, it IS a documentation issue.  The OOo Linux documentation says 
(something like) to be sure you run it as a user with permission to 
modify files where it is installed.  So after installation, I ran it 
first using sudo, since I had installed it into /opt.

Trouble is, that then creates user files in ~/.ooo-dev2 but they are all 
owned by root  :-(  so it's like running OOo from a CD  ;-)

After changing permission of all those files, it seems to work OK.  It 
even shuts down when you click on the Close button  ;-)

If you really DO need to run as a user with permission to modify the 
location of where the main OOo files are located, then we need to 
provide some step-by-step instructions.  Otherwise, it should say to 
make sure you are running with permissions to write to your own home 
directory.

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Jan Wilson, Belize