On Thursday 23 October 2003 02:07 pm, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:27:13 -0700, Richard Harke > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Richard> I'm going to give a talk/show-and-tell about Itanium to my > Richard> local linux users group and thought that I could use the > Richard> presentation capabilities in openoffice.org. I looked > Richard> through this list's archives and learned about > Richard> /emul/ia32-linux. between that and the lack of any port > Richard> info on the openoffice.org web site I guess that it only is > Richard> available in compatibility mode. This is actually ok as I > Richard> can then talk about compatibility mode which is a big issue > Richard> for some people. > > Richard> However the question is: How to install? I have the > Richard> distribution binary for ia32-linux with its install script. > Richard> I'm guessing I could do: chroot /emul/ia32-linux ./install > > Richard> then maybe have to make (a few) symlinks > > Richard> Does this make sense? > > There is no need to install it in /emul/ia32-linux. You can install > it pretty much wherever you want (e.g., I installed it in > ~/OpenOffice.org1.1). To get the nice anti-aliased fonts, I usually have to > explicitly invoke spadmin and register the TrueType fonts. > > --david Thanks much. I put it in /opt as suggested by OO.o and it works just fine. No symlinks required.
Richard
