On 6/13/2010 7:29 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:19:17PM -0400, David B Teague wrote:
On 6/13/2010 2:33 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-06-13 2:23 PM, David B Teague wrote:
I run an older 1.6 GHZ Sempron 2.8 with 1 GB Ram, and a not-very-fast
backplane. I just installed OO.0 3.2.1 and it took less than a half
hour, consistent with earlier versions. I saw other responses with
suggestions for cleaning up your system that look like they might help.
A half *hour*??? Just to *install* it???
On your system, the install should take considerably less than 5 minutes...
Are you installing it over an internet connection? That's the only way I
can see for it to take that long.
The tone of your remark is harsher than you perhaps meant it to be.
I saw nothing in the reply by Tanstaafl that could by any stretch of
the imagination be interpreted as harsh.
The *perception* of harshness is mine, and that was my perception, that
you did not interpret it that way is meaningless.
I do not understand what you mean "installing over an internet
connection." Everyone who does not use a CD to install OO.o must install
from the web. One downloads the executable installer from the OOo web
site then runs the executable installer.
Running the installation program itself takes more than 8 minutes here,
but there are other things to do besides just run the installer.
Fetching installer, 5+ minutes, installation, 8+ minutes. I ran OO.o to
check settings, "load at startup" was not checked. When first started,
OO.o demanded I register, and sent me to Oracle's web site, which would
not accept my login name and password I had retained from Suns' web
site. After many attempts, it told me it couldn't do this because of a
"server error." A substantial waste of time.
To my knowledge there is no demand to register and no password required.
Did you download it from www.openofice.org or another site?
I did *exactly *what I said I did. I went to the *OO.o web site *and
successfully fetched the installer, successfully ran it. I opened a
document. The OO.o program asked me to register OO.o *at Oracle,* which
I did, and I was asked BY THE ORACLE WEB SITE for the login name and
password I used at Sun for my registry at Sun's site.
David Teague
