[techtalk] StarOffice:It rings me

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Anton,

Congrats on your install.  As for the dot, this means current 
directory.  For example ./soffice really means in my current directory 
start the program following the ./

The . (dot) is not typically part of your PATH variable for security 
reasons and therefore if you want to start a program in your current 
directory you must precede the program name with a ./

As for gnome, I do not use it as I prefer kde instead.  Perhaps someone 
else can help you with that one.

Regards,

Phil

At 11:40 11/10/00 +0800, antonxie wrote:
>Well techtalkers...
>
>I've installed Staroffice 5.2 too on a separate partition u01.
>I'm complete newbee...not bumblebee nor gonnabe...
>I have it installed on /u01/staroffice52/
>To run the program, I have to type ./soffice in /u01/staroffice52/program/
>directory
>My guestions:
>1. How does the command  "./soffice" differ from other, say "soffice", coz
>simply type soffice would run the program.  I don't know about this stuff...
>2. How do I create a launcher on gnome desktop then, since the command line
>start with a dot (.)
>
>Please help me out...
>
>TTFN
>
>anton xie
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: curious <curious at curious.org>
>To: Caitlyn M. Martin <caitlynmaire at earthlink.net>
>Cc: <MSYBlood at aol.com>; <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:25 AM
>Subject: Staroffice instal hints (was:Re: [techtalk] Disk utilities
>underLinux)
>
>
> > When installing staroffice I recommend installing it in some usual
> > area.. (like /usr/local/soffice or the like)  then run setup as each user
> > that is going to use it and do a "run from the network" install or
> > whatever the selection is.. this will keep the binaries in a logical place
> > and put each user's config in thier home directories.. and will alow any
> > user to use staroffice without having to install the binaries in each
> > user's directory..
> >
> > FYI
> >
> >  /"\  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> >  \ /   ASCII Ribbon Campaign      curious at curious.org
> >   X   - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail     http://www.curious.org/
> >  / \  - NO Word docs in e-mail    "This quote is false." -anon
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> >
> > > HI,
> > > >
> > > > So, when upgrading to new versions of Linux, it can be done without
>updating
> > > > the /home directory?
> > >
> > > Absolutely.  /home is where user data goes.  None of the OS or
>application
> > > code goes there unless, when installing individual apps later, you put
>it
> > > there by *your* choice.  (StarOffice 5.1 was one exception.  It put
>stuff in
> > > /home/<user name> by default, which I disliked intensely.  I don't know
> > > about 5.2.)  In any case, you can, during every install I've seen,
>choose
> > > which partitions to format and which not to.  If you back up your
> > > application and shell config files (various files starting with a .),
>which
> > > are the only thing that might get overwritten, your /home directory can
>be
> > > preserved basically untouched during an upgrade or an install.
> > >
> > > > Does /home never need updating?
> > >
> > > Only when you update your data.  Think of it this way:  if you're
>running
> > > Windows, you could create a shared directory called \home, right?  In it
>you
> > > could have subdirectories for different users, right?  Now, if you put
> > > things like word processing documents, spreadsheets, saved games in
> > > progress, or whatever in there, why would you need to upgrade it?  See
>what
> > > I mean?
> > >
> > > > As you can see, I'm a
> > > > Linux newby (in fact, I'm not yet a newbe, more like a gonnabe).
> > >
> > > Don't worry... we're friendly :)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Caity
> > >
> > > --
> > > ---------------------------------------------------
> > > Caitlyn M. Martin
> > > caitlynmaire at earthlink.net
> > > http://www.angelfire.com/nc/caitmartin
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