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Updating or Removing the StarOffice Installation


After you have StarOffice installed, you might want to change the installation. For example, if you didn't install the help files or templates in the original installation, you might want to add them to your system later.

You might even need to remove StarOffice from your Linux system. Although StarOffice is pretty much self-contained in the Office50 directory, it always helps to have a deinstall utility.

All these tasks can be completed by starting the setup utility after StarOffice is installed. The setup utility detects that StarOffice is already installed on your system (for the current user) and presents you with options that are different than those in the original installation.

Start the setup utility within the program directory of StarOffice:


$ /opt/Office50/bin/setup & 
$ 

The setup program starts up, but it doesn't look like it did the first time. The options presented now (see Figure 1.10) are

The next sections take you through these options.

Figure 1.10
The setup utility presents different options after StarOffice is installed.

Some of these options require that you have access to the StarOffice archive that you downloaded and used to install StarOffice. These original files may be needed to alter or update your installation.

Modifying the StarOffice Installation

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.

If you start the setup utility again----after you've completed the original installation----and choose the Modify option, you can add to or remove from the list of components that you originally installed.

The screen where you select the components to install is basically the same as the Custom Installation screen described in the Single User installation procedure. You can choose the items that you want to have included in your StarOffice installation.

Deinstalling StarOffice

If you decide you need to take StarOffice off your system, the best way to do it is with the De-Install option in the setup program.

Caution - You can use the rm command to erase the StarOffice directory, Office50----but use caution with the rm command. Don't forget to remove the .sversionrc file in your home directory, as well.

Repairing StarOffice

The final option in the post-installation setup program is to Repair your StarOffice installation. Use this option if something has happened to your Linux filesystem that makes StarOffice unable to run.

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.

The Repair feature can determine which 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.

Again, you might need access to the original StarOffice archive files that you downloaded so that the Repair utility can retrieve any missing files from the StarOffice original source. This is only the case, however, if the networked installation of StarOffice is damaged.

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