Alright...I'm new to installing apps. I D/L and installed OpenOffice to (from an unknown reason) /root/openoffice1.1.2.

Well, I guess this wasn't a good place to install to. I tried to add it to my KDE menu under office, with :

OpenOffice.org1.1.2/soffice

as the command, but it will not do anything. How do I uninstall it? kappfinder would not find it, either. Help!

Andrew

OOo installs into its own directory, just remove it and install it as a normal user into your home directory.

So, I can just delete the entire directory? No worries? I guess I was thinking of windows, where the registry would get beat to hell after awhile.

Just delete the folder, install as normal user.

Where should I install these programs too? Sorry I'm so new...just used to the program files folder where you could put everything!

Andrew

It will suggest ~/Openoffice.org1.1.2 or something (~ = home dir of user installing OOo). That's fine. It will add menu entires in your KDE menu as well.

here is how to install openoffice

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

To get the best out of linux add a user:

adduser [username]

then fill out the user info with the defaults for now, such as user id, room no etc.
give yourself a good password, then log out from the root account and log back in as the newly created user. You will find that your home is now /home/username/ and is refered to as ~/ (the sqiggle is just an abreviation; try "cd ~" and then "pwd")
If you need to edit things or do anything as root, log in as a user and type:

su
[password]

This will give you "superuser" privellages and allow you to do what you've got to do.
Install OOo when logged in as your ordinary user and it will be installed to ~/openofficesomething. This does mean that only you can use that installation but at least it's secure.

But, I can just delete the old install folder?

Yeah, I know all about the super user and things; I just read the network install on the open office site, and got confused, I guess. The installing is just sort of confusing- i'm too used to add/remove programs, program files, and the registry...where "just deleting the folder" wouldn't do a thing!

Thanks for you patience!

Andrew

yes, you can delete the folder. In linux, a file is a file, wysiwyg! The only thing similar is linked libraries (.so instead of .dll) and perhaps (depending on your distribution) a package manager, for .rpm's, .pkg's, .deb's etc. But even these basically just keep a record of the software on your computer; you can if you like, uninstall a package manager and keep track of your installed software on a piece of paper. There is no registry as such, explore and enjoy.

Alright...I know rmdir will work for an empty directory- what about for the full? I suppose I could just man it when I boot into slack...alright, thanks guys

Andrew

nope, it's:

rm -r /root/OpenOffice.org-1.1.2/ #:~]

edit: took me ages to work that out once!

Any help?

Andrew

This is how you should install OpenOffice in Linux (Unix) for multiuser.

1. Login as root.
2. Untar and cd into the openoffice installation file.
3. #-n will give you network installation)
4. it will install as usuall, and the installer will suggest to install in /opt/openoffice1.1.2, If you don't mind, that is a good location (for me).
5. Just finisih up with the installation.
6. If you want to use openoffice as root, cd /opt/openoffice1.1.2
7. ./setup and choose network installation (2.3 something megabyte only.
8. to install openoffice for other users, log in as the user, cd /opt/openoffice1.1.2
9. ./setup and the same.

I believe it is /root/OpenOffice.org1.1.2 (without the dash)

Thanks carboncopy, I didn't know that.

ajbrouwe:
If you are working in a terninal and you are typing a path or filename, try typing the first two or three letters of the path like so:

rm -r /ro

then press tab and it should auto-complete:

rm -r /root/

then repeat for the next bit:

rm -r /root/Op

press tab:

rm -r /root/OpenOffice1.1.2

if it doesn't auto-complete then either there are more than one file with the same(ish) name or it doesn't exist.

You are welcome, Tuttle.

The bashcompletion package in slackware-10.0/extra is really great.

It will detect what command you are using for example:

tar -xjvf linux-

and you press tab, it will automagically choose .tar.bz2 file. (-j flag)
and same with installpkg it will automagically choose .tgz file.

How is the OpenOffice installation?