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<P>After you select the installation directory, click OK. A window appears, displaying the progress of the installation (see Figure E.5). The installation will take from 5&#150;25 minutes to complete, depending on the speed of your system components.</P>
<P><A NAME="Fig5"></A><A HREF="javascript:displayWindow('images/ape-05.jpg',800,590 )"><IMG SRC="images/ape-05t.jpg"></A>
<BR><A HREF="javascript:displayWindow('images/ape-05.jpg',800,590)"><FONT COLOR="#000077"><B>FIG. E.5</B></FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp;This dialog box shows you the progress of the installation process.</P>
<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading12"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Entering Your User Information</FONT></H4>
<P>When the installation is complete, a dialog box appears, requesting such personal information as your name, company, telephone number, and e-mail address (see Figure E.6).
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<BR><A HREF="javascript:displayWindow('images/ape-06.jpg',800,590)"><FONT COLOR="#000077"><B>FIG. E.6</B></FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp;The user information you enter here is stored for use in StarOffice documents.</P>
<P>You don&#146;t have to enter any information here, but it&#146;s a good idea to enter at least your name and e-mail address. This information will be used when you create and send e-mail messages with StarOffice. It provides your name and e-mail address to the Internet systems that process e-mail or newsgroup postings. Your real name and e-mail address are required by Internet etiquette when sending messages. The StarOffice e-mail and news services won&#146;t work without them.
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<P>The other information, such as fax number, telephone number, and address, is provided to your StarOffice system for use in document templates and macros like fax cover sheets and travel expense reports. But the information beyond your name and e-mail address is less important.</P>
<P>Fill out as much of this dialog box as you want, and then click OK to continue.</P>
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<P><FONT SIZE="-1"><HR><B>TIP:&nbsp;&nbsp;</B>If you need to update, modify, or add to the information in this dialog box, you can do so at any time by using the Tools menu. Choose Options, General, and select the User Data tab.<HR></FONT>
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<P>The installation is now complete. If you aren&#146;t interested in learning about a network installation, skip to the section on printer installation later in this appendix.
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<H3><A NAME="Heading13"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Preparing for a Network Installation</FONT></H3>
<P>A network installation of StarOffice will be useful if you&#146;ve purchased several licenses of StarOffice. It allows you to install StarOffice in a single location where more than one user can access and use it. This saves disk space by eliminating the need for each user to have a copy of StarOffice in his or her home directory.
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<P><FONT SIZE="-1"><HR><B>NOTE:&nbsp;&nbsp;</B>Of course, if you&#146;re using the non-commercial version of StarOffice included on the CD in this book, you can use the network installation with multiple user accounts to evaluate how it all works. But don&#146;t run your business on it.<HR></FONT>
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<P>A network installation of StarOffice is basically the same as a single-user installation. The only differences are the location where StarOffice is installed and the need to enter a few files for each user who will use StarOffice. We&#146;ll walk you through both parts of the installation: server and user.
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<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading14"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">The Server Side of a Network Installation</FONT></H4>
<P>The system requirements for the network installation are the same as those for a single-user installation.
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<P>To start a network installation, follow these steps:</P>
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<DD><B>1.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Log in as a user with administrative privileges to mount the CD-ROM drive. Then start the X Windows system.
<DD><B>2.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mount the CD-ROM drive containing the StarOffice CD-ROM.
<DD><B>3.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Change to the StarOffice directory with this command:
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<B># cd /mnt/cdrom/StarOffice40/</B>
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<DD><B>4.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Start the network installation with this command:
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<B># ./setup /net</B>
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<P>The dialog boxes that appear are identical to those that appear during a single-user installation. The only difference in the process at this point is the location you select for the StarOffice files to be installed in.
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<P>Instead of installing StarOffice in a single user&#146;s home directory, you should install it in a common applications area, such as the /opt directory or the /usr/local directory (under an Office40/ subdirectory).</P>
<P>Complete the network installation by responding to the dialog boxes for accepting the license agreement and selecting the type of installation (Standard, Minimum, or Custom). You don&#146;t enter user information in the network installation until you install an individual user.</P>
<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading15"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">The Client Side of a Network Installation</FONT></H4>
<P>The network installation of StarOffice isn&#146;t meant to be used directly. (In fact, it may generate a segmentation fault and crash if you try to run it.) Instead, follow the network installation instructions (which you just completed) by installing a few files for a single user.
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<P>To start the installation process for a single user, follow these steps:</P>
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<DD><B>1.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Log in to your Linux system using the username that will be using StarOffice as a networked user.
<DD><B>2.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Change to the StarOffice binary subdirectory that you used for the network installation:
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<B>$ cd /opt/Office40/bin</B>
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<DD><B>3.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Start the setup program with this command to indicate that you&#146;re setting up a single user for network use of StarOffice:
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<B>$ ./setup</B>
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<DD><B>4.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Click Accept to accept the license agreement and continue with the installation.
<DD><B>5.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;When the dialog box appears asking you to select the type of installation, click the Installation from Net or CD button.
<DD><B>6.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Choose the desired installation directory in the user&#146;s home directory for the StarOffice files. The home directory must have about 3MB of space.
<BR>A dialog box displays the progress of the installation as files are installed in your home directory.
<DD><B>7.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;The user data dialog box appears, where you can enter your personal information. Click OK to finish the installation.
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<P><FONT SIZE="-1"><HR><B>CAUTION:&nbsp;&nbsp;</B><BR>Remember, if you don&#146;t enter at least your real name and e-mail address, the e-mail and newsgroup functions within StarOffice won&#146;t work.<HR></FONT>
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<P>Now you&#146;re ready to start StarOffice. Before you move on, however, you should review the last section on modifying your StarOffice installation.
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<H3><A NAME="Heading16"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Updating or Removing the StarOffice Installation</FONT></H3>
<P>After you have installed StarOffice, you might want to change the installation. For example, if you didn&#146;t install the help files or templates in the original installation, you might want to add them to your system later. On the other hand, you might even need to remove StarOffice from your Linux system. Although almost all of StarOffice is stored in the Office40 directory, it always helps to have a deinstall utility.
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<P>All of these tasks can be completed by starting the setup utility after StarOffice is installed. The setup utility will detect that StarOffice is already installed on your system (for the current user) and will, therefore, present you with different options than it did in the original installation.</P>
<P>Start the setup utility by changing to the program directory of StarOffice and running the setup program:</P>
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$ cd Office40/bin
$ ./setup &#38;
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<P>The setup program starts, but it doesn&#146;t look like it did the first time (see Figure E.7). The following options are presented now.
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<DD><B>&#149;</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Modify installation
<DD><B>&#149;</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Upgrade installation
<DD><B>&#149;</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Deinstallation
<DD><B>&#149;</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;Repair
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<BR><A HREF="javascript:displayWindow('images/ape-07.jpg',547,441)"><FONT COLOR="#000077"><B>FIG. E.7</B></FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp;The setup utility presents different options after StarOffice is installed.</P>
<P>Most of these options require that you have your StarOffice CD mounted. The setup utility needs to access the original files in order to alter or update your installation.
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<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading17"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Modifying the StarOffice Installation</FONT></H4>
<P>When you installed StarOffice, you had a choice of installation options. If you chose the Custom Installation option, you selected which components you wanted to install.
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<P>If you start the setup utility again&#151;after you&#146;ve completed the original installation&#151;and you choose the Modify button, you can add items to or remove items from the list of components you originally installed.</P>
<P>The dialog box in which you select the components to install is basically the same as the Custom Installation dialog box. You can choose the items that you want to include in your StarOffice installation.</P>
<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading18"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Upgrading Your StarOffice Installation</FONT></H4>
<P>If you have a CD with a newer version of StarOffice for Linux, you can choose the Upgrade button to update the necessary files from the new StarOffice CD so that the installation of StarOffice on your Linux system reflects the latest version.
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<P>By using the Upgrade button instead of erasing the existing StarOffice directory (or using the deinstallation option that follows), you can preserve the settings and working files that you&#146;ve created in your current StarOffice directory.</P>
<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading19"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Deinstalling StarOffice</FONT></H4>
<P>If you decide you need to take StarOffice off your system, the best way to do it is with the De-Iinstall button in the setup program.
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<P>Of course, as an alternative you can go to the Office40/ directory and use this command</P>
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$ rm &#150;rf *
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<P>But that&#146;s generally very dangerous. In addition, some of the hidden files created by StarOffice may be left in place. If you intend to reinstall StarOffice for any reason, those leftover hidden files will cause confusion during the installation.
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<H4 ALIGN="LEFT"><A NAME="Heading20"></A><FONT COLOR="#000077">Repairing StarOffice</FONT></H4>
<P>The final option in the post-installation setup program is the Repair button. Use this button if something has happened to your Linux filesystem that prevents StarOffice from running.
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<P>You can compare this to having a really bad crash in Microsoft Windows. Instead of reinstalling the system or application, you can run the setup utility and use the Repair button.</P>
<P>The Repair feature can determine what parts of StarOffice are missing or misplaced and whether file versions are incompatible. As with modifying the installation, this provides a convenient alternative to backing up your data and configurations and reinstalling StarOffice.</P>
<P>As with the Modify and Upgrade options, you&#146;ll need your StarOffice CD-ROM so the Repair utility can retrieve any missing files from the original source.</P><P><BR></P>
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