[lylo]

Before you start flaming me, YES, I have searched the forums for threads relating to this, but admittedly none of them have made any sense to me. So I'm making this one in hope that I'll be able to get a much clearer answer that can hopefully help me and anyone else out stuck with it.

Ok, to business,

I downloaded the ISO of 1.1.4 from the website, and it seems that all the ISO is, is just all of the OOO installers etc for all OS' thrown onto a cd, there for a user to explore the cd and find which installer he/she needs. I'm not sure whether the installers supplied on the ISO's are in anyway different to those ready to download from the site.

So, I've explored the Windows section, and I have this, a 45.9MB file called ooo_setup.exe, in normal circumstances, ie, a non unattended install, after opening, it'll ask for a normal installation, or an expert installation (network mode), I pick normal and so the installer goes on to extract a tonne of files to a temporary location, and when thats finished, the installer begins in a rather nice GUI.

Now from what I've read, to make OOO install unattended, it needs a response file or something to answer certain questions thatll come up relating to the install? It'd be nice to know which of these I'd need in this file. OK, well this installer....

1. Asks for personal details, name, town, email, phone no. etc etc.
2. Standard Installation, Custom or Minimum.
3. (Choosing standard or minimum) Asks for installation directory...
4. Asks which file types to associate OOO with, MS Word docs, MS Excel docs, MS Powerpoint, and if you want OOO to be the default HTML editor...
5. Java Setup. It'll ask what java software it can use to support it. Options are: Do not use Java or Use an installed java environment (Which for that I choose Sun Java and continue).

The programme then installs.

From what I've read there seems to be alot of confusion over how to get this installed, it'd be a big help to me and hopefully many more people if the required switches can be given, as well as details on this response file, and anything else that might be nessecary for this programme.

Ok, I've stopped whining lol, now you can kill me

[prathapml]

no probs lylo, no one's gonna kill here
The most that can happen is people replying and telling you that "Search" is a very good friend, lol.

But since you've already searched and read those threads, I don't really know what more to add. I'd suggest starting out with what the existing openoffice posts say - and if you see something wrong happening, post it here and we'll happily help you.

Its so boring to have to type an entire guide, when search will help. Oh anyways, someone might come along who has done OO.o unattended and has the will to type the procedure.



good luck!

[lylo]

Well I've had another search, and it's been mentioned that this post has everything a user would need...

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...8&hl=openoffice

Admittedly, its all blah to me lol!

While I am lost on actually getting the thing installed, I did find this http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=20120&hl= gave some pretty straight forward info on the response file so I don't think that part should bring up too much trouble.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18168&st=10 This one just confused the hell out of me!

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=16390&hl= I found this one though, and one post simply said,

Quote

Put this file with files of open office and run this command :
setup.exe -r:oo.txt -debug
It's work for me.

The file included with that is just a text file, a response one it seems,
[Environment]
InstallationMode=INSTALL_NORMAL
DestinationPath=C:\Program Files\OpenOffice

[Java]
JavaSupport=preinstalled_or_none

[Windows_Desktop_Integration]
Register4MSWord=True
Register4MSExcel=True
Register4MSPowerPoint=True
RegisterAsDefaultHTMLEditor=False

I'm gonna give this a try , if it works on VM, I'll get back with hopefully a much cleaner post on how to do it lol!

[DigeratiPrime]

Ive been using the OOo_1.9.m69_native_Win32Intel_install for a while and I love it!

OpenOffice 2.0 Snapshot Builds.
http://download.open.../680/index.html
If you prefer Torrents: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/bit...t/download.html

Its soo much better than 1.1 imo. Plus I think it has watcha looking for, an MSI Installer.
I havent tried it, but try running an Administrative Install, and then use the MSI silent switch.

[hfrfc]

1.1.4 works fine...
However it registers file association only for the current user.... :/


edit: use setup -alluser for a multiusers install on same machine.