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

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Josh Levine wrote:

>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:

OpenOffice is indeed similar. The packaging of OpenOffice in K12LTSP is
done in the same way that Ximian packaged Star Office 5.2.

/usr/bin/office is a wrapper script that checks the proper configuration
files in the user's home directory. If everything is setup correctly,
it fires up Open Office. Otherwise it automatically copies over a template
and modifies it for that user, then it fires up Open Office.

Burt, how are you trying to run Open Office? Also, please run the following
command and if there is any output, post it back here to the list:

	rpm -V OpenOffice OpenOffice-config

-Eric