[Wylug-help] Small Office set-up

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:56:55 +0000


On Friday 21 Mar 2003 2:37 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Friday 21 Mar 2003 2:28 pm, Dave Fisher wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:15:39PM +0000, Yaseen Saddique wrote:

> > > can you please advise on how I can setup linux/office for all users on
> > > a single PC ?.

> If you're using OpenOffice, then as root you do a system install to
> something like /usr/local/, and then for each user you simply install from
> that directory, choosing the workstation option (can't remember exactly),
> which only install a few MB per user.
>
Star Office and Open Office install in exactly the same way.

> As for sharing documents etc., any good unix/Linux tutorial on file
> permissions will show you how to get up a 'group folder' directory.

Then create a group for the purpose.  Add all appropriate users to that group.
Make the group their default group.  All should be straightforward.

Anne
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