re: Can't install Open Office
Friday, October 5, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3939 messages posted)
|According to the OpenOffice web site, it does run on Windows98.
| Joe Hepperle
Duh. That's the great thing about Open Source Software:
Unlike what Windoze Weenies are used to,
lock-out (especially VERSION-BASED LOCK-OUT) is a foreign concept in F/OSS.
That, however, is not what was stated as a problem.
**INSTALLATION** is failing.
|You may have a virus if you are getting Kernel error messages.
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That's true. Checking for infections is pretty much a given these days.
I forgot we were talking about Windoze.
|I hate to ever tell someone to reinstall Windows 98
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...especially when UPDATING an install that is obviously WAY behind
may replace any broken parts with functional bits.
|Also, OpenOffice requires JAVA
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Hogwash.
**SOME** people may need Java to do **some** things in OOo.
MANY users will never miss it.
cache of http://download.openoffice.org/common/java.html
...and Java has NOTHING to do with getting it *installed*.
There are even some folks who advocate for the older OOo 1.x version:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/18/1155252&threshold=5#20652999
(problems with Open Document Format in 2.x)
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