openoffice 1.1 install on slackware 9.0
 

i'm having difficulty getting openoffice 1.1 rc* to install, i've updated my computer with swaret to be sure it wasn't a compatability issue.

any ideas would be helpfull.

RE: Open Office
 

How are you installing it. Please put your steps. Please give errors. Thank you

i downloaded every 1.1rc release from rc to rc3 openoffice.org.

then i tar xvfz OOblah.......rc.tar.gz
everything extracts into folder "OOblah........rc" normally

then i cd to "OOblah........rc" make myself root

bash-2.05b# ./install
Installation starting, please be patient ...
glibc version: 2.3.2

Initializing installation program....................

Installation Completed
and nothing else happens!!!

bash-2.05b# ./setup
glibc version: 2.3.2
bash-2.05b#
in this scenario i get a small progress bar for about 30 seconds.... then nothing else happens.

The way it says in the docs and the way I did done do it:


./install --prefix=/usr/local (or whatever directory you want accessible to all users)


cd to that directory whether as root or a normal user to set it up

./setup

and that's you, it'll create a directory in your home directory

cd to it and

./soffice

to start up

each user can run the ./setup to install and copy the needed files

ok tried that with the exact same results......

is there any thing else anyone can think of?

so far the only successfull install is from OpenOffice Beta2

oops....
i meant OpenOffice 1.1Beta2

No idea then :)

You've probably looked here but all I can do is point you to the installation page which applies to 1.1rc2 onward, so it says, and is basically as above



http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/i...ons.html#linux

Are you in an X environment when you install? One of the wierd aspects of the OO install is that it is graphical. If you pop open a terminal in your X environment and install from their, you may have better luck.

ok here's my update on the situation.
i've just downloaded rc4 and now the installation from the command "./install --prefix=/opt" works perfectly. But when i go and run "./setup" as a user i get an error message that reads "Segmentation fault"

any ideas???

P.S. thanks to everyone for all the help so far it really has gotten me farther than i was before.

Srenar - how did you make out? Are you up and running? If not let me know. I just installed this weekend and it works great

Hey i was having the same trouble all i did was run command(KDE) this only will install it as user but if u go into root im sure it will work. Ok when u open the run command just type /home/user/OOoopenoffice/./setup -net or just ./setup try that it worked for me!!!!! Ihope tthis helps

Matt3333

thanks for all the help. it turns out that i had some fonts that were corrupted. i found the problem by runing "strace ./setup" and reviewing the output.

a big thanks to everyone who lent a hand in solving this problem
srenar:)