I installed StarOffice (5.2) as root to an i586 running Debian with a 2.2.12 kernel and KDE as the desktop (using Corel 1.1.2). It runs fine as root, but I cannot figure out how to get it to run as non-root. Have tried symlinking /usr/local/office52/soffice to the user's home (and that just starts the install script that errors because it can't find /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc) as well symlinking /root/.kde/share/applnk/staroffice to the user's home and neither worked. (Looks like there is read/execute for user throughout the path for the first strategy, and yeah, I really didn't think the symlink to /root would work, but what the heck)
Any ideas? Is this a general problem with any non-deb binary I install? I glanced through the O'Reilley Running Linux to see if it had anything about installing/managing binaries and didn't notice anything. thanks in advance
