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OfficeFMT Installation Instructions

OfficeFMT for OpenOffice.org is distributed in a zipped archive called officefmt*.uno.zip, where * stands for version number. There is no need to unzip this file to install it.

You can install the package either for a single user or as a part of a shared OpenOffice.org installation.

To install OfficeFMT for a single user:

Place the officefmt*.uno.zip package into an OpenOffice.org 1.1.* user-specific package directory. By default, the directory for user-specific packages is <OfficeHome>/user/uno_packages. <OfficeHome>; stands for a directory where user’s settings are stored, for example, C:\Documents and Settings\<User's Name>\OpenOffice.org1.1.1\ or /home/<User's Name>/OpenOffice.org1.1.1.

Run a command line shell and change to <OfficePath>/program. <OfficePath> stands for a directory where OpenOffice.org is installed, for example, C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.1\ or /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.1.

Close all instances of OpenOffice.org and run the tool pkgchk from the program directory. The pkgchk tool is part of the OpenOffice.org installation.

For a user package, simply run pkgchk without options:

[/program] $ pkgchk

The tool analyzes the packages in the package directories, matches them with a cache directory for custom extensions used by OpenOffice.org, registers the components found in the packages and configures them as needed.

To install OfficeFMT for all users:

Place the officefmt*.uno.zip package into an OpenOffice.org 1.1.* shared package directory. By default it is <OfficePath>/share/uno_packages.

Change to <OfficePath>/program and run pkgchk with the -s (or --shared) option:

[/program] $ pkgchk --shared

As an alternative, the package can also be specified as command line argument. In that case, the officefmt*.uno.zip file will be automatically copied into the package directory and installed afterwards.

[/program] $ pkgchk /foo/bar/officefmt*.uno.zip

Uninstall procedures

To remove OfficeFMT from the OpenOffice.org installation, the opposite steps are necessary:

Remove the package from your uno_packages directory.

Close all instances of OpenOffice.org and run pkgchk or pkgchk -s.

Further information

For further information about installing/uninstalling UNO packages under OpenOffice.org 1.1.* refer to the OOo Developer's Guide, chapter 4.9.1 "UNO Package Installation".


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