On Tuesday 09 August 2005 17:53, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry - I didn't intend to hijack an earlier thread, stupidly I just
> clicked reply and changed the subject.
>
> Thanks Jonathan/Dan. I took the RPMs from openoffice.org, and followed
> the instructions to the letter:
>
> rpm -ivh *.rpm
>
> Actually before that - I copied the SuSE relevant rpm to the dir with
> the other rpms.
>
> This installed everything into /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122 and created
> symlinks to /etc/openoffice.org1.9.122. The soffice startup script was
> symlinked into /usr/bin. I had no choice in the installation process of
> where the stuff was going, or whether I wanted symlinks installed :(
>
> I'm trying to run this under gnome - is this a no-no? I note that root's
> window manager is kde - could this be why it works for root and not me?
>
> Also, I have noticed strange behaviour in the terminals which I try to
> start openoffice - it's like the environmental variables are getting
> screwed up.....? For instance typing ls, now gives me the same "symbol
> not found (libnss_ldap.so.2)" error as happens when I try to run soffice.
Why not use the unofficial SuSE rpms ? They should be available from
ftp.suse.com / ../ ../ projects / openoffice.org
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