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

[Chris Rauschuber]

Make sure that when you run setup as root, you use
./setup -net

Then, each user needs to run /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup
and do the WorkStation installation.

This will allow users to share the installation and only install a few
MB of files in their home directories.

Chris

--- Tom Woody <woody at nfri.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > 	> 
> > 
> > 
> > 	-- 
> > 	Tom Woody
> > 	Systems Administrator
> > 	NationWide Flood Research, Inc.
> > 	phone: 214-631-0400 x209
> > 	  fax: 214-631-0800
> > 
> > 	If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
> > 	find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
> > 			--Scott Adams
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Woody
> Systems Administrator
> NationWide Flood Research, Inc.
> phone: 214-631-0400 x209
>   fax: 214-631-0800
> 
> If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
> find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
> 		--Scott Adams
> 
> 
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