Fixed it!
Here's what I did, I hope it helps someone:
I manually removed each user's staroffice dir plus the .sversionrc in
each home dir. I removed (manually) /usr/local/staroffice.
Then, as root, I installed with "./setup /NET" and chose
"/opt/Office51". As a user, I ran "./setup", chose the NET install, and
chose the dir "~/Office51".
When the installer got to the Java step, it found the JDK 1.2.2 which I
installed earlier today.
The problem might have been that JDK 1.2.2 wasn't on my system when I
installed before (though it was there when I tried to run). Or that I
typed "NET" in lowercase before. Or that I didn't choose the
directories in the right way (/usr/local vs. /opt, "staroffice" vs.
"Office51"). Who knows.
Bye,
Joel
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> I've had a similar problem with star office: I installed with "setup
> /net", and root can run it with no apparent problems.
>
> Then I did "setup" as two other users, creating about 3Meg in each home
> dir, and set PATH accordingly. When they type "soffice" it simply
> returns with no error message or other effect.
>
> I'm using Mandrake 7.0.
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