On Jan 28, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Michael O'Keefe wrote:
Might depend on how it installs. I agree with Todd, but RPM's require root access to modify the RPMdb...They shouldn't if a user makes in install in a private area. That ability should be available.
OpenOffice itself makes this available - you can install in a system-wide location and then each user runs from there but keeps their configs in $HOME, just as with most other Unix programs. But if they prefer, they can download and install entirely to $HOME, never needing root privileges.
What Stewart ran into was the OS X-specific installer, which was built with the purpose of installing system-wide on a Mac OS X machine. To do that it requests root. It's not OOo's fault but instead the creators of the OS X installer for not building in the user-only installation option.
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