Hi all,
I hope you guys can help me with this. I downloaded Staroffice and installed it in the /usr/local folder so that all users may access the program and work with it.
The problem is that after i change from root to my personal user, and I run staroffice it always says there are some instalation files missing and then it automatically quits. I run it again as root and it runs fine!!, but it never wants to run under another user!! it always says it's missing some instalation files.
I appreciate all your help guys!, thanks!

zLinuxz

If you want a system install you should install SO as root with the --network switch, then you have to do a smaller install as each user to install the needed components into their ~/.

Here is a duplicate thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=&postid=81160

I found that you can copy the ".sversionrc" file to everyone's home directory and it works fine.

Also, apparently people need "write" access to the Star Office directory tree. In order to accomplish this, I made a group called "soffice" and added all users who use Star Office to that group. THen I did this:

find /usr/local/staroffice6.0 -type d | xargs chgrp soffice
find /usr/local/staroffice6.0 -type d | xargs chmod g+rwxs
find /usr/local/staroffice6.0 -type d | xargs chmod +t

This gave me some error messages because "find" didn't quote the file names that contained spaces, but Star Office still worked okay.

You can get the latest release from http://www.openoffice.org/