[NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access

[Tom Woody]

I used to install Star Office as root, though I never had to deal with the .dot file thing.  As soon as I would run it under my user account it would create all the base settings (had to change a few permissions on some things, but nothing really serious) and I just configured it from there.  On my most recent install, since I am the only user of my machine I just installed it to a directory under my home directory and haven't had any issues at all...

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:28:34 -0500
MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

> Speaking of Open Office...
> 
> I have it loaded on my Red Hat 7.3 box.  The install is not very friendly,
> so it seems.
> 
> I install it as root, and under root it works fine.  It even shows up in the
> KDE menu structure.  A wonderful thing.  However, under the other users I
> have on the box, nothing works until I copy some obscure dotted file over to
> the home directory of the various users(I don't know the name of the file.
> I'm not where the box is.).  Also, none of the options are in the KDE menu
> structure.
> 
> The same problem happened on the Star Office version before they migrated to
> Open Office.
> 
> I looked through their help files on the open office website, but couldn't
> find anything that addresses this issue.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem, or am I missing something horribly simple?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Monty
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	Tom Woody [SMTP:woody at nfri.com]
> 	Sent:	Friday, July 19, 2002 10:12 AM
> 	To:	discuss at ntlug.org
> 	Subject:	Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and
> MS-Access
> 
> 	I have had good experience with Star Office (on Windows and on
> Linux).  Some features of Excel and Word don't translate very well into Star
> Office, but otherwise it works very well.  It would primarily depend on the
> features used in the spreadsheets that he would need to work on.  I have
> never installed the DB portion of Star Office (MySQL works perfectly for
> me).
> 
> 	On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:30:37 -0500
> 	"Rengasamy, Samy" <srengasamy at firstam.com> wrote:
> 
> 	> A friend of mine wants an alternative to his windoze centric
> 	> systems. His office mostly uses MS-Excel and MS-Access.
> 	> 
> 	> I was going to suggest Open Office and Postgresql, on Linux.
> 	> 
> 	> What are your suggestions?
> 	> 
> 	> Thanks,
> 	> 
> 	> Samy Rengasamy.
> 	> 
> 
> 
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