Don't use OpenOffice.org Beta (1.9.95)

[Andy Choens]

On 4/24/05, David Teague <teague at jackson.main.nc.us> wrote:
> 
> The Linux version of OpenOffice.org 1.9.95 pegs the cpu while
> idle. See the bug report at
> 
>  http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47944. As a result, I
> 
> I just had an equivalent problem in Windows XP. When I
> stress the writer application by opening a web page with
> Writer the system crawls and the Task Manager says that
> soffice.bin is using 95-99% of the CPU.
> 
>

Well, always the glutton for punishment, this seemed like a great
reason to go and install the silly thing, alongside .79 from Ubuntu's
repos.  Over-all I've had good luck with .79, but figured what the
heck....I want to see what this new one looks like.

Well, with the help of alien I got it to install, although not thanks
to the tips on the web-page.  The tips the OOo webpage had for Debian
users had me calling deprecated and non-existent commands...what fun! 
After fixing the permissions issues which I assume were caused by
alien...why would soffice not be set for global execution?......

I don't seem to have any issues with it trying to eat all of my CPU
cycles, but it doesn't seem to be able to remember me.  I execute
./swriter from /opt/open..../program and it starts right up and gets
my user info, and then it works just fine.  But, if I exit and do the
same thing over again, it thinks I'm a first time user again and runs
the first time wizard.  I think there's some additional tweak to my
permissions that I need.

If anyone has gotten this to go, I'd love to hear how you did
it...maybe we can forward this all back to the OOo devs so their
Debian help file will be more recent/applicable.

--andy