Carl Cerecke wrote: > > Chris Hellyar wrote: > > > > In the tar there are two installers.. one is called setup, the other > > install. > > > > setup does a single user install, and the default path is ~/Openoffice.org > > install does the shared install into /usr/local/Openoffice.org (I think > > that's where it went).. > > At the end of the install output I get a bunch of errors saying: > ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory > > > So, run install as root, and then as each user run > > /usr/local/Openoffice.org/setup which will create the per user > > ~/Openoffice.org directory with settings etc.. > > The only option it will give me is to repair the installation.
OK. Got it sorted now. Had a .something-or-other file put there by a previously aborted attempt at installing it that caused subsequent attempts to spit many dummies. strace is useful for finding out what is going on... Cheers, -- Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science, |Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7859 University of Canterbury, |Fax: +64 3 364 2569 Private Bag 4800, |http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~cdc Christchurch, New Zealand. |
