On Saturday 08 December 2001 06:28 pm, you wrote: > At 05:28 PM 12/8/2001 -0500, Hoyt Duff wrote: > >On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:00 pm, Thomas Sourmail wrote: > >> > I just installed SO 5.2 as SU. I can't seem to get it to run by > >> > a user, only su. I tried changing the permissions and tried > >> > changing ownership but it still says it can't find sofficerc > >> > when a user tries to execute it. Anyone have a solution? > >> > >> Did you install with the /net option ? > > > >This is the _best_ way to install SO. > > I did not install with the /net option. Why is that needed? > > >> As root, install :'so52-whatevername.bin /net' (when asked, > >> install in something like /usr/local/office52, not /root (stupid > >> default) as non priviledge users can't read there !) > > > >I like /opt for Star Office. > > I chose /usr/local. BTW, I installed Mandrake 7.2 with the default > partitions and I'm wondering why so much disk space was given to the > /var partition? Only 4% is used and it's 14.2GB! Also, I'm wondering > why only 29GB is shown in kdf when this is a 40GB drive? Surely, the > swap partition isn't 11GB! > > >BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer! > > Hmm, but I don't like betas. I've had enough major disk crashes to > last a lifetime! 99% of them happened on Windoze though. Anyway SO > 5.2 isn't so bad. And I'm glad that it can read Word documents. > > ALso, I need to find out why SO didn't see JAVA during install since > I followed the instructions on installing JAVA and JAVA seems to be > working in Netscape 6.2. > > No rest for the weary. Use SUN's jre 1.3 and it will work with both SO 52 and SO 6b1. If you download the 6.0b1 from SUN the jre is included and there is an option to install it during the SO install. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com ICQ 988809 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts.
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