Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.0 - OpenOffice can not save files

[Sebastian Welsh <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard, 

these are suggestions rather than answers, as I am not using Mandrake so
am speculating.

First, you may want to have a look at your OO installation permissions.
If it is owned by root, you'll be able to run the application, but (I
hope) you won't have permission to write to root-owned files and
directories. OO may die unpleasantly at that point. 

So, what to do? I think there is a good chance your OO package is a
multi-user install. This installs most of the application to a system
directory (on my system, /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/). This occupies an
unpleasant amount of space. To run openoffice as a normal user, you then
run the OpenOffice setup program. This uses an additional 2 or so MB of
space per user. You end up with an OpenOffice directory in your home
directory, but it only contains a small amount of stuff.

To run the setup script on my system

/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/setup

and probably similar on yours.

HTH

Seb.

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:02, Richard Hayes wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I had OO installed on Mandrake 8.2, after upgrading to Mandrake 9.0 I had two 
> copies of OO installed. One in my home directory and the other  in usual 
> place.
> 
> I removed the copy in my home directory as I needed the space. Afterwards I 
> can start OO but can not save files. As soon as I try to save a file OO 
> crashes.
> 
> I tried to remove the rpms and reinstall the rpms.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Richard
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