Richard, these are suggestions rather than answers, as I am not using Mandrake so am speculating.
First, you may want to have a look at your OO installation permissions. If it is owned by root, you'll be able to run the application, but (I hope) you won't have permission to write to root-owned files and directories. OO may die unpleasantly at that point. So, what to do? I think there is a good chance your OO package is a multi-user install. This installs most of the application to a system directory (on my system, /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/). This occupies an unpleasant amount of space. To run openoffice as a normal user, you then run the OpenOffice setup program. This uses an additional 2 or so MB of space per user. You end up with an OpenOffice directory in your home directory, but it only contains a small amount of stuff. To run the setup script on my system /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/setup and probably similar on yours. HTH Seb. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:02, Richard Hayes wrote: > Dear list, > > I had OO installed on Mandrake 8.2, after upgrading to Mandrake 9.0 I had two > copies of OO installed. One in my home directory and the other in usual > place. > > I removed the copy in my home directory as I needed the space. Afterwards I > can start OO but can not save files. As soon as I try to save a file OO > crashes. > > I tried to remove the rpms and reinstall the rpms. > > Any ideas? > > regards, > > Richard > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
