shock wrote:
>
> I just installed StarOffice 5.1 from a CD which was included with the
> RedHat 6.1 package. After installation (which went incredibly smooth),
> I executed the program. The disk whirred for a few minutes then
> returned me to the command prompt. I tweaked my .bashrc file
> according to the README file and tried it again. Same result. So, I
> perused the README file again and discovered several other files that
> would need to be downloaded (jdk-1.1.7, et al) and further tweaked
> before StarOffice would run correctly.
>
> Frankly, I think this is overkill. If I don't have the necessary files
> on my system, then the thing shouldn't install at all. I'm not a
> typical user, and I'm more than willing to download and install whatever
> is necessary to make a program work. I can completely understand
> needing to download additional packages when I've downloaded a program
> from the 'Net, but to have to do this from a production-quality CD is
> unthinkable (imo). But if I was Joe-Average-User, I'd give up. I think
> this is ridiculous. Who ships a CD and fails to include the packages
> necessary for it to run (particularly when those packages are freely
> available)? The README gets convoluted when discussing jdk, jar and zip
> files, and it's really difficult to know what you're supposed to do (and
> again, I've been working with this stuff for more years than I'd like to
> recall).
>
> After a few attempts, I gave up on StarOffice (which is unfortunate,
> because I was really hoping to start using it full-time and I was hoping
> to recommend it to several of my clients who are expecting a review of
> StarOffice from me next week). I think I'll just stick with
> WordPerfect. It's not everything I need it to be, but when it installs,
> it runs. And that's good enough for me (and just about every
> Joe-Average-User in the world).
>
> Sorry for the rant, but it's stuff like this that makes it increasingly
> difficult to convince the suits to switch to Linux. And I'm sick of it.
I can appreciate what you're saying (I remember earlier version of
StarOffice and the difficult associate with installing them :-) but in
contrast to your experience I had no trouble at all (though it is a
resource hog) with the new version. I only use it when some dang moron
sends me a doc that came from a M$ app. Other than that I don't have
much use for it, but with it, I don't need M$ at all, for anything. I
don't have the jdk installed either so I don't know what that's about.
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