I am using SuSE 8.0 at home and have 8.1 here at work.

Art

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> Art,
>
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:12, Art Fore wrote:
>
>>At last, it is working. I reinstalled OOo even though java was enabled
>>before, but I did highlight the jre 1.4 this time.
>
>
> Great I have a feeling that was most of your problem.
>
>
>>I also added the \\
>>in the path statement. Don't understand why you have to use double \\
>>though.
>
>
> It's a programming issue. For example \ is reserved so that you can do
> things like tabulation, line returns, and etc.
>
> \t
> \n
> \r
>
> So if you want an actual \ you must use \\.
>
> Otherwise the next char after the \ is looked at as a special char to
> be combined with the \ for the actual use like above.
>
> Like in a string if you need a " you must use \" otherwise the " is
> interpreted as a string delimiter and will cause problems during
> compilation.
>
>
>>Now if I can get it working in Linux.
>
>
> That should not be to difficult. Basically the same steps, install Java,
> JayBird, and then OO.
>
> Now do not use RH 8.0 OO rpms as they have Java support disabled and I
> have yet to figure out how to re-enable it. With out having to reinstall
> OO from a tarball instead of RPM.
>
> Which I normal would not hesitate to do, however the RPM installs things
> in the usual RH places and creates icons and etc in the start menu.
>
> So I am singing up to the OO user mailing list to see if anyone knows
> how to re-enable it.
>
> Otherwise I will have to reinstall it from tarball and redo all the gui
> links and icons myself. A pain.
>
>