Re: open office

["Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Andrew.
Here is a mini tootorial on setting up OpenOffice with gnopernicus.

1. Download the Linux binary package OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 from:
http://www.openoffice.org
(Note, do not use the OpenOffice supplied with your distribution of Linux as
most of them lack the accessibility support you will need. That is why you
will need to get it direct from OpenOffice.org.)
2. Download the Sun Java sdk 1.4.2 or later  from:
http://java.sun.com
3. Donload the java access bridge source code from:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/java-access-bridge/
4. Install the Java sdk and put the java bin path on your path.  Also you
can make a soft link in /usr/bin pointing to all the major required
executibles such as jar, javac, idlj, etc... which ever method works for
you.
5. Untar the java-access-bridge source, and cd in to that directory.
6. Do:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
7. Once the java-access-bridge is compiled and installed with no errors you
need to copy a few files in to your java runtime.
copy gnome-java-bridge.jar to /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext
copy accessibility.properties to /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib
8. Now, You need to open your .orbitrc file in your primary user account and
add the line:
ORBIIOPIPv4=1
9. Logout and relogin.

Finally, the first half of installation and setup is over, but there is
still much to be done.

10. Before installing Openoffice you must decide if you want this to be a
single user install, or want this to be used by everyone. Personally, for a
computer with multiple users install Openoffice as root, and let each user
do the final home install of settings and other files.
11. Run the Openoffice.org setup like:
sh filename.bin
where filename is the name of the OpenOffice.org installation file you
downloaded.
12. The setup should load, and gnopernicus at this point should be reading
the installation.
13. Answer the questions, and when asked about jre you should point it to
the java runtime where the access bridge is installed to.
14. After the install has completed you can do one of two things.  You can
add /opt/OpenOffice.org-1.1.1/bin to your path, or make links to the bin
files and put the links in /usr/bin.
15. Now, from the run dialog in gnome type scalc, or swriter, or one of the
OpenOffice.org apps and it should load and talk to you.

I realize that this message was brief, but this covers the main points of
install. It is kind of complicated for the first couple of times, but take
notes and some practice and you will get use to getting OpenOffice going.
Hope this helps.