On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:09 +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In a previous post I mentioned my fustration at discovering that 2.0 
> Beta installs to /opt by default.  I have insufficient room in my / dir 
> to allow it to do so, and in fact the install failed for that very 
> reason.  I have tried to reinstall with the command  # rpm ivh --prefix 
> /usr/local *.rpm but it will not allow me to do so as the --prefix 
> option is only to be used on "new installs".  I have used mc to search 
> for any instances of files relating to the previous attempt and have 
> deleted everything with "openofficeorg" in the filename.  I have cleaned 
> out /opt but have no idea what could be causing my problem.  If I can 
> get back to a truly clean state then I can install OOo 2.0 Beta in 
> /usr/local which is a partition I have set aside for such programs.  I 
> am running Mandrake 10.1 Power Pack.  How do I determine which files are 
> preventing me from doing this?
> 

This is discussed in
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE_draft.pdf 
try the method(s) outlined.
-- 
PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST.
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