OpenOffice.org Build 644 Beta Personal Install How-To Written by: Martin Blapp OpenOffice.org 1.1Beta will soon been installed in ${PREFIX}/OpenOffice.org-644 1 User installation ------------------- Just type "openoffice" after you have successfully installed the package. If there is no installed OO.org dir in hour homedir, you'll be prompted to install some files and choose a installed JDK. The setup installs a "OpenOffice.org1.1Beta" folder in your homedir. If the setup tells you there is already an installed version, you may look at the file ".sversionrc" in your homedir. In this file OpenOffice and StarOffice have both a line for each version which is installed. After removing the problematic line you should be able to install again. 2 Start OO.org -------------- There are some wrappers installed for fast startup. Add "${PREFIX}/bin/" to your PATH and you will be able to use them. ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1 ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-sagenda ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-scalc ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-sdraw ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-setup ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-sfax ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-simpress ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-spadmin ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-sweb ${PREFIX}/bin/openoffice_1.1-swriter OO.org does need $LANG to be set to a suitable value. If it is not already set, a default value is chosen. 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 Setup problems (FreeBSD < 4.7-RELEASE only) --------------------------------------------- If the setup complains about a missing file "setup.ins", it's time to upgrade your FreeBSD system to the latest version. You will encounter this bug only if your OS is older than FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. 4 Crashes in URL-location bar (FreeBSD < 4.7-RELEASE only) ---------------------------------------------------------- OO.org can crash if you enter a non existing path or URL in the location bar. To fix these crashes you need the following patch. You will see this bug only if your OS is older than FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/ooo/rtld-symlookup.diff 5 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.org1.1Beta 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.