OpenOffice.org Build 1.0.3 Personal Install How-To Written by: Martin Blapp OpenOffice.org will soon been installed in ${PREFIX}/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/ 1 User installation ------------------- Just type "openoffice.org" after you have successfully installed the package. If there is no installed OO.org dir in your homedir, you'll be prompted to install some files and choose a installed JDK. The setup installs a "OpenOffice.org1.0.3" folder in your homedir. If the setup tells you there is already an installed version, you may look at the file ".sversionrc" in your homedir. In this file OpenOffice.org and StarOffice have both a line for each version which is installed. After removing the problematic line you should be able to install again. 2 Start OO.org -------------- There are some wrappers installed for fast startup. Add "${PREFIX}/bin/" to your PATH and you will be able to use them. ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3 ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-sagenda ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-scalc ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-sdraw ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-setup ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-sfax ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-simpress ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-spadmin ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-sweb ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice.org-1.0.3-swriter OO.org does need $LANG to be set to a suitable value. Some old X-Servers before XFree86 4.2 do not like the western locale with Euro symbol (ISO_8859-15). You should ignore the warning message then or upgrade to to a more recent X-server. If you have chosen US-ASCII as locale, you cannot load and save documents with special characters and these characters are also not available in swriter and scalc. 3 Crash at startup after using a localized version -------------------------------------------------- If you had installed the english version, and then have switched to a localized OO.org, it will crash instantly. To solve this issue, please remove the already installed OpenOffice.org1.0.3 dir in your homedir and remove the appropriate entry from ".sversionrc". After you have done this, redo the user installation and the problem will go away.