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,
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