[ale] Open Office

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Dow Hurst wrote:

> That directory is the place where all the user specific files and
> configurations are set.  You'll need to reinstall OO as her user ID to
> get the directory back.  The default language must be German unless you

I did that, but it's still german, which is wierd because mine is english.
there is some database stuff in /opt but I can't figure it out.

> have a local config for another language.  Interesting twist!  Not an
> American centric piece of software.

Open Office is based on Star Office from Sum Microsystems so I think it is
English centric. Knoppix, otoh, is german, so that may have something to
do with it. But I've gone through all the gui configs and even
dpkg-reconfigure locales.


Meine Gute!

	bjorn

> Dow
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> Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
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> >I have open office running on a knoppix HD install for my fiance. Trouble
> >is, she moved her "OpenOffice.org1.0.3" folder from her home dir elsewhere
> >(there seem to be a lot of things on knoppix that should be . files that
> >aren't!). Anyway, I removed the dir altogether 'cause things were getting
> >screwy and when I did OpenOffice setup everything's in German.  Google
> >ain't helping. any ideas?
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