Mozilla and Open Office

Wholeeo · 03-25-2004, 04:49 PM

I'm setting up a desktop for one of our office people (first linux machine rolled out) all they are required to have is Putty, Open Office and an email client (in this case I'm going to use T-Bird). Because management does not want browsers on the system I need to remove Mozilla but Open Office requires the file libxpcom.so where do I put this file or how do I let Open Office locate it?

flyfishin · 03-25-2004, 08:33 PM

I thought Putty was a Windows ssh client? Anyway, instead of removing mozilla you could simply change the permissions on /usr/bin/mozilla so users cannot run it. That way other programs that need mozilla libraries can have them.

Pauli · 03-26-2004, 10:55 AM

Ummm. Cant you choose which things install? AKA in the custom installation of fedora, just choose NOT to install mozilla?

Wholeeo · 03-26-2004, 11:30 AM

Thanx for the info it worked. Putty can be run under wine but I found that the Unix source file worked better. Heres the info on that :http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html
Yes you can choose what to install but Open office is dependant on Mozilla to provide the file libxpcom.so, so even if you don't install Mozilla and just go for Open Office Mozilla is still installed.

Pauli · 03-26-2004, 11:39 AM

Install neither, then download open office and install manually