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gzaector

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From: WV

Registered: 2004-11-14

Posts: 10

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OpenOffice.org install question

Hi all!

New Arch user here, and I must say, so far the experience has been great! It's everything I have been looking for in a distro!

But, with any new thing, comes a few questions... and here is my first one:

I installed OpenOffice.org recently via pacman (openoffice-base, openoffice-en, and openoffice-spell-en), and that went flawlessly. Then I get to the point where I am suppose to run /opt/openoffice/setup, and thats where a little confusion comes in.

Do I run it as a normal user and tell it to install to my home directory? Do I run it as root and tell it to install it to /opt (which is a symlink to /usr/opt on my machine...  for space reasons)? Or do I run it as root and tell it to install to /usr?

Thanks in advance! This seems like a great community!

-gz

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kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: OpenOffice.org install question

run it as the user you also want to use it and pick the small install (only a few megs per user). that should do it. 

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