Hi :) It probably is possible on the command-line too but it's fairly pointless as it saves you nothing.
It might be easier to just install the whole thing and then block users from being able to use the modules you don't want them to use. For most users that means just giving them desktop shortcuts to start Writer and Calc but none of the others. Although it's fairly simple for most of us here to click through the menus equivalent to "Start" button -"All Programs" - LibreOffice - Impress most users find that type of navigation almost impossible. Even a shortcut on their desktop is difficult for them to understand. They expect to just get a file and double-click the file to open it. If they want a new file then double-click an old file and try to delete everything in it to create a new file. So, if they have to navigate through menus then they are effectively blocked from being able to use it. Also, as an IT person, people will often give you missions which they are fairly clueless about. They might be adamant that they don't want certain things and then later start shouting and creating a fuss because those things are not accessible. They might have told you they don't want Impress or the others purely because they don't know what those modules do. Of course they wont tell you that. What they might do is in a couple of weeks someone gives them a .odp which they then can't open and they then blame you for that. What they probably want is to block people from poking around with things that they don't understand themselves because that is "time wasting" or "playing". They think they need people to focus entirely on the tasks they are given and follow orders. I was once told to design a database that had separate reports for A-F, G-K, L-P and Q-Z. Absolutely adamant that they didn't want an A-Z. When they had printed the lists on Excel/Calc it had worked out neatly with 4 neat pages. Unfortunately as they collected more data they kept needing the ranges changed, so A-D, E-I, J-O, P-Z. One time i was in a rush to get out and didn't delete my A-Z and the next time i got in they demanded to know why i hadn't given them an A-Z to begin with because the A-Z would have saved them a lot of trouble. Another time i was told that the boss wanted people to have access to a specific file inside a folder in a file-share "on the network". Was quite adamant that he didn't want people to access other files in the same folder and didn't want to move the file or the other files. Instead of trying to encrypt all the other files using 1 key and the lone file using another i just gave everyone a short-cut to the file on their desktop. To get to the rest of the files they would have to navigate through at least 3 folders and that effectively put them out of reach of almost anyone, except me. A few weeks later the boss wanted me to let people have access to a few more files ... So, as an IT person you have to use common sense to make it look like you have followed orders precisely but still leave yourself a bit of flexibility (secretly) and most importantly not spent too long on the task as stated. If the users that aren't morons still have access and feel they are managing to join an exclusive club then you often get them on your side and they take care of tings while you are elsewhere. On the other hand if you really do block them then they get frustrated and accidentally break things while trying to get their work done. So, the question is are you trying to block access to some very useful modules/programs because of some technical reason that would really help you or are you just trying to follow orders? Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Silent-install-with-only-Writer-and-Calc-tp4070814p4070889.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
