Re: [K12OSN] Open Office problem..........

[Josh Levine <joshl levindustries com>]

Bert Rolston wrote:
 
> I can get Open Office to work correctly for root, but any other user gets a
> message about an "unsupported version" and soething about the .sversionrc
> file.
> 
> It wants to fix the installation, but never works.
> 
> I vaguely remember something about this before, have tried to find the
> answer in the K12 archives, and checked my e-mail message archive.
> 
> Couldn't find a sausage, much less .sversionrc!
> 
> Could someone give me an idea on how to fix this?

SO 5.2 (not sure how different, if at all OpenOffice is) requires a
separate installation for each user.  If you use an automated script to
create users, you can simply copy the directory over without any
problems, but each user requires a unique .sversionrc file that you can
create like this:

echo [Versions] > $HOME/.sversionrc
echo StarOffice 5.2=$HOME/office52 >> $HOME/.sversionrc
echo >> $HOME/.sversionrc

You can view all the configuration files for my X term installation at:

http://www.levindustries.com/xterm/

(the commands above are in /gdm/PreSession/login_script)

--Josh Levine