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| <h2>Welcome</h2> |
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| <p><i>Last updated: 2002-04-24</i></p> |
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| <h2>OpenOffice.org 1.0 ReadMe</h2> |
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| <p>For latest updates to this readme file, see <a href="readme.html">//welcome/readme.html</a>.</p> |
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| <h3>Dear User</h3> |
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| <p>This file contains important information about the OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite. Please read this information very carefully before starting work.</p> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org community, responsible for the development of this product, would like to invite you to participate as a community member. As a new |
| user, you can check out the <a href="../about_us/introduction.html">OpenOffice.org Introduction site</a> with helpful user information. Also read the |
| sections below of getting involved the OpenOffice.org project.</p> |
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| <h3>Notes on Installation</h3> |
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| <dl> |
| <dt><b><a href="#systems">System Requirements</a></b></dt> |
| <dd><a href="#linuxintel">Linux Intel</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#windows">Windows</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#solsparc">Solaris Sparc</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#solintel">Solaris Intel</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#linuxppc">Linux PowerPC</a></dd> |
| <dt><b><a href="#common">Common Notes</a></b></dt> |
| <dd><a href="#netwin">Network Installation: Error when calling the OpenOffice.org QuickStarter (Windows) </a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#uifont">Changing the User Interface Font</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#deinstcde">Deinstalling a Network Installation Under Common Desktop Environment (CDE) (Solaris only)</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#mozab">Mozilla Address Book Driver (Solaris only)</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#reiser">File System ReiserFS: OpenOffice.org Will Not Start for User IDs Larger Than 65536</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#filelock">File Locking</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#infozip">Using Info-ZIP</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#source">Used/Modified Source Code</a></dd> |
| <dt><b><a href="#GettingInvolved">Getting Involved</a></b></dt> |
| <dd><a href="#registration">Registration</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#survey">User Survey</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#issues">Report Bugs & Issues</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#marketing">Join one or more Projects</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#support">User Support</a></dd> |
| <dd><a href="#start">Way to start</a></dd> |
| </dl> |
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| <h3>System Requirements<a name="systems"></a></h3> |
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| <h4>Linux Intel<a name="linuxintel"></a></h4> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Linux Kernel version 2.2.13 or higher</li> |
| <li>glibc2 version 2.1.3 or higher</li> |
| <li>Pentium compatible PC</li> |
| <li>64 MB RAM</li> |
| <li>250 MB available hard disk space</li> |
| <li>X Server with 800x600 or higher resolution, with at least 256 colors</li> |
| <li>Window Manager</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h4>Windows<a name="windows"></a></h4> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT (Service Pack 6 or higher), 2000 or XP (Please note: Windows 95 requires a DCOM95 update. |
| For further information, visit <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom95/dcom1_3.asp">http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom95/dcom1_3.asp</a>)</li> |
| <li>Pentium compatible PC</li> |
| <li>64 MB RAM</li> |
| <li>250 MB available hard disk space</li> |
| <li>800x600 DPI resolution or higher, at least 256 colors</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Note: Please be aware that administrator rights are needed for the installation process. </p> |
| <p>Make sure you have enough free memory in your temporary directory.</p> |
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| <h4>Solaris Sparc<a name="solsparc"></a></h4> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Solaris 7 operating system (SPARC platform) or higher (Solaris 8 recommended)</li> |
| <li>128 MB RAM</li> |
| <li>250 MB available hard disk space</li> |
| <li>X Server with 800x600 or higher resolution, with at least 256 colors</li> |
| <li>Window Manager</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>Important information about the installation of OpenOffice.org on the Sun Solaris platform:</p> |
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| <p>Before installing OpenOffice.org, one or more operating system patches from Sun Microsystems must be installed. You can download them at |
| <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com">SunSolve</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Operating system patches required:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>for Solaris 7: 106327-08, 106300-09 (only 64 bit)</li> |
| <li>for Solaris 8: 108434-01, 108773-12, 108435-01 (only 64 bit)</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>The versions mentioned above are the minimum requirements, newer (higher) version numbers are also allowed.</p> |
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| <h4>Solaris Intel<a name="solintel"></a></h4> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Solaris 7 operating system (Intel platform) or higher (Solaris 8 recommended)</li> |
| <li>64 MB RAM</li> |
| <li>250 MB available hard disk space</li> |
| <li>X Server with 800x600 or higher resolution, with at least 256 colors</li> |
| <li>Window Manager</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>Important information about the installation of OpenOffice.org on the Sun Solaris platform:</p> |
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| <p>Before installing OpenOffice.org, one or more operating system patches from Sun Microsystems must be installed. You can download them at |
| <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com">SunSolve</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Operating system patches required:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>for Solaris 7: 106328-08</li> |
| <li>for Solaris 8: 108436-01, 108774-12</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>The versions mentioned above are the minimum requirements, newer (higher) version numbers are also allowed.</p> |
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| <h4>Linux PowerPC<a name="linuxppc"></a></h4> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Linux Kernel version 2.2.13 or higher</li> |
| <li>glibc2 version 2.2 or higher</li> |
| <li>Macintosh PowerPC, IBM RS/6000, Motorola PreP or other Linux compatible PowerPC based hardware</li> |
| <li>96 MB RAM</li> |
| <li>250 MB available hard disk space</li> |
| <li>X Server with 800x600 or higher resolution, with at least 256 colors</li> |
| <li>Window Manager</li> |
| </ul> |
| <br /> |
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| <h3>Common Notes<a name="common"></a></h3> |
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| <p>You can install OpenOffice.org 1.0 along side of an older version of OpenOffice.org. If you later choose to deinstall a previous version of |
| OpenOffice.org, you must call the setup program of the newer version and run the Repair option. This makes sure that the new version is correctly |
| registered in your system.</p> |
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| <p>Make sure you have enough free memory in your temporary directory.</p> |
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| <h4>Network Installation: Error When Calling the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter (Windows) <a name="netwin"></a></h4> |
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| <p>If, when starting the system, problems should occur in calling the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter (e.g. invalid link), this is probably due to the fact |
| that the network drive on which the network installation is installed is not or not yet available.</p> |
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| <p>In most cases, this happens when the network drives are logged in via a login script, thereby establishing the connection for the network drives |
| parallel to running the programs of the autostart group from which the Quickstarter is also started.</p> |
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| <p>To avoid this problem, the network drive should be connected via the system's services. If this is not possible, the link used to call the Quickstarter |
| can be removed from the autostart group of the system, or the Quickstarter can already be disabled when installing the workstation installation. If the |
| system administrator already disabled the Quickstarter during installation of the network installation, then the Quickstarter cannot be selected by the |
| user in a later workstation installation.</p> |
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| <h4>Changing the User Interface Font<a name="uifont"></a></h4> |
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| <p>In OpenOffice.org you can change the font used for screen display and printing by replacing it with a different font installed on your system. This can |
| be done using the font replacement function. Choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Font Replacement to access this function.</p> |
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| <p>To change the font of the OpenOffice.org user interface, you have to replace the default font "Andale Sans UI" with another font and mark the "always" |
| setting for this replacement.</p> |
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| <p>Refer to the OpenOffice.org Help for a detailed explanation of the dialog.</p> |
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| <h4>Deinstalling a Network Installation Under Common Desktop Environment (CDE) (Solaris) <a name="deinstcde"></a></h4> |
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| <p>The shortcuts set in the CDE in a network installation are not automatically removed during deinstallation. Before deinstallation, enter as |
| Administrator (root) the following command line to remove the shortcuts from the CDE: /usr/dt/bin/dtappintegrate -u -s [path to OpenOffice.org].</p> |
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| <p>Example: /usr/dt/bin/dtappintegrate -u -s /usr/local/openoffice.org1.0</p> |
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| <h4>Mozilla Address Book Driver (Solaris only) <a name="mozab"></a></h4> |
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| <p>The Mozilla address book driver requires the SUNWzlib package. This package is not part of the minimum Solaris operating system installation. If you |
| require access to the Mozilla address book, then add this package to your Solaris operating system using the command "pkgadd" from the installation CD.</p> |
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| <h4>File System ReiserFS: OpenOffice.org Will Not Start for User IDs Larger Than 65535 <a name="reiser"></a></h4> |
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| <p>In versions lower than 3.6, the file system ReiserFS causes a problem as soon as the user ID is larger than 65535. The problem is that files temporarily |
| saved by OpenOffice.org can no longer be removed by the program itself, but rather only by the system administrator (e.g. /tmp/OSL_PIPE_xxx ). The result |
| is that OpenOffice.org cannot be started. The problem is in the ReiserFS file system and has been fixed in version 3.6 and higher.</p> |
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| <h4>File Locking<a name="filelock"></a></h4> |
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| <p>In the default setting, file locking is turned off in OpenOffice.org. To activate it, you have to set the appropriate environment variables |
| SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 and export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING. These entries are already in disabled form in the soffice script file.</p> |
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| <p>Warning: The activated file locking feature can cause problems with Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.7 used in conjunction with Linux NFS 2.0. If your system |
| environment has these parameters, we strongly recommend that you avoid using the file locking feature. Otherwise, OpenOffice.org will hang when you try to |
| open a file from a NFS mounted directory from a Linux computer.</p> |
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| <h4>Using Info-ZIP<a name="infozip"></a></h4> |
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| <p>OpenOffice.org uses Info-ZIP to create and unpack the OpenOffice.org installation, as well as for packing and unpacking the OpenOffice.org XML file |
| format. Info-ZIP programs (ZIP, UnZip and other utilities) are available free of charge and can be used in the source code and as an executable program. |
| They can be attained by visiting Anonymous FTP sites such as ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.</p> |
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| <h4>Used / Modified Source Code <a name="source"></a></h4> |
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| <p>Portions Copyright 1998, 1999 James Clark. Portions Copyright 1996, 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation.</p> |
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| <h3>Getting Involved<a name="GettingInvolved"></a></h3> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org Community would very much benefit from your active participation in the development of this important open source project.</p> |
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| <p>As a User, you are already a valuable part of the suite's development process and we would like to encourage you to take an even more active role with |
| a view to being a long-term contributor to the Community. Please join and checkout the user page at: |
| <a href="/">OpenOffice.org</a>.</p> |
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| <h4>Registration<a name="registration"></a></h4> |
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| <p>Please take a little time to complete the minimal Product Registration process when you install the software. While registration is optional, we |
| encourage you to register, since the information enables the Community to make an even better software suite and address User needs directly. Through its |
| Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution to safeguard your personal data. If you missed the registration at installation, you |
| can return and register at any time at <a href="registration-site.html">//welcome/registration-site.html</a>.</p> |
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| <h4>User Survey<a name="survey"></a></h4> |
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| <p>There is also a User Survey located online which we encourage you to fill out. The User Survey results will help OpenOffice.org move more rapidly in |
| setting new standards for the creation of the next-generation office suite. Through its Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution |
| to safeguard your personal data.</p> |
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| <h4>Report Bugs & Issues<a name="issues"></a></h4> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org Web site hosts IssueZilla, our mechanism for reporting, tracking and solving bugs and issues. We encourage all Users to feel entitled |
| and welcome to report issues that may arise on your particular platform. Energetic reporting of issues is one of the most important contributions that the |
| User Community can make to the ongoing development and improvement of the suite.</p> |
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| <h4>Subscribe<a name="subscribe"></a></h4> |
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| <p>We have a few of the <a href="../mail_list.html">project mailing lists</a> to which you can subscribe to.</p> |
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| <ul type="circle"> |
| <li>News: announce@openoffice.org <b>recommended to all users</b> (light traffic)</li> |
| <li>User support: users@openoffice.apache.org <b>recommended to new users</b> (moderate traffic)</li> |
| <li>Main user forum: users@openoffice.apache.org <b>Easy way to lurk on discussions</b> (heavy traffic)</li> |
| <li>Marketing project: marketing@openoffice.apache.org <b>beyond development</b> (getting heavy traffic)</li> |
| <li>General code contributor list: dev@openoffice.apache.org (moderate/heavy traffic)</li> |
| <li>Groupware: groupware@whiteboard.openoffice.org (moderate traffic)</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h4>Join one or more Projects<a name="marketing"></a></h4> |
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| <p>You can make major contributions to this important open source project even if you have limited software design or coding experience. Yes, you!</p> |
| |
| <p>At <a href="/projects/index.html">/projects/index.html</a> you will find projects ranging from Localization, |
| Porting and Groupware to some real core coding projects. If you are not a developer, try the Documentation or the Marketing Project. The OpenOffice.org |
| Marketing Project is applying both guerrilla and traditional commercial techniques to marketing open source software, and we are doing it across language |
| and cultural barriers, so you can help just be spreading the word and telling a friend about this office suite.</p> |
| |
| <p>You can help by joining the Marketing Communications & Information Network here: |
| <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html</a> where you can provide point communication contact |
| with press, media, government agencies, consultants, schools, Linux Users Groups and developers in your country and local community.</p> |
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| <h4>User Support<a name="support"></a></h4> |
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| <p>For help with the OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite, take a look at the archieves to questions already answered on the 'users@openoffice.apache.org' mailing list |
| at <a href="../mail_list.html">//mail_list.html</a>. Alternativeely, you can send in your questions to users@openoffice.apache.org. |
| Remember to subscribe to the list to get an email response.</p> |
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| <p>Also check the FAQ section, found on left hand navigation bar of the OpenOffice.org homepage. Frequently asked questions are posted here.</p> |
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| <h4>Way to Start<a name="start"></a></h4> |
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| <p>The best way to start contributing is to subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists, lurk for a while, and gradually use the mail archives to |
| familiarize yourself with many of the topics covered since the OpenOffice.org source code was released back in October 2000. When you're comfortable, all |
| you need to do is make an email self-introduction and jump right in. If you are familiar with Open Source Projects, check out our To-Dos list and see if |
| there is anything you would like to help with at <a href="../dev_docs/todos.html">//dev_docs/todos.html</a>.</p> |
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| <p>We hope you enjoy working with the new OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite and join us online.</p> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org community</p> |
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