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Star Office 8 installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Oct 12 19:21:32 2005
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:21:20 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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I've installed Star Office 8 on Athena and it would be great if you
all could test it for a week or so before I announce it
publicly. There's a lot I haven't tried at all including the new
database component- note that that's distinct from the Adabas D database
add-on, a full SQL database that I'm punting as before because it's
much too complicated and doesn't fit well into the Athena computation
model.
I'm not bypassing Sun's individual user installer this time, because
the default settings have gotten saner (autosave now on by default,
but not autobackup), it's gotten simpler, and it gives an option to
import Star Office 7/Open Office 1.1 settings. It also presents users
with the license which we should have been doing before... unfortunately
users will have to do it twice if they work on Sun and Linux but at
least it's pretty short.
To run it:
add soffice
soffice -ver 8.0
Useful documentation:
/mit/soffice_v8.0/README.athena
/afs/.athena/software/soffice/Athena/messages/avail8.0
/mit/soffice_v8.0/pdfdoc/getting-started.pdf
/mit/soffice_v8.0/pdfdoc/administration.pdf
Please let me know if there seem to be any significant problems. As to Open
Office 2, I'm waiting for the official release, which is supposed to be out
imminently....
Enjoy,
Alex
