if someone yells across a room "where do i install open office" and the (verbal) response is "opt, off the root directory" or "root - opt" then it could be seen as ambiguous.
Trouble is, root has no one meaning. Why didn't Kernighan & Richie (or whoever invented unix) make the superuser "admin"??? I suggest Peter deletes the stuff in /root/opt (backing up any files he has made) and reinstalls openoffice into /opt. No doubt someone can lend him a cd of openoffice on Thursday? Nick > > I've just had an email exchange with Peter Cornelius and we have > established that StarOffice really does seem to be installed in > '/root/opt/Office52' . This was installed for him at the > installfest. > > Please tell me it's not the case that Mandrake or any other > distribution has a habit of storing applications in /root. Otherwise, > I'm going to have to resign my post as, um, 'person who's vaugely > knowledgeable about Linux when compared to someone who's not', and > possibly commit sepuku or maybe drink a lot of alcohol to wipe out my > shame. > > If that's not the case, then the only other option is that whoever > installed it made a mistake. I say we beat the perpetrator soundly, > not only because they got it wrong, but because it lead to a confusing > and frustrating conversation about what the words 'root' and > 'directory' together mean! :] > > (Not to mention it probably didn't do anything for Peter's morale. and > here I was thinking that Peter was being either quite stupid or > deliberately contrary, but no, he really did have things installed in > /root . ) > > It's entirely possible that the perpetrator misread or misunderstood > the instruction to install it under the root directory themselves. > > > Andrew. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
