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Installation

The Solaris Package Manager is powerful tool you can use to deploy software packages locally and through a network.

• Become root if necessary

su -

• Change directory to:

<OpenOffice.org_unzip-dir>/packages

For a silent installation of Apache OpenOffice you must create an admin file. This hides any recurring queries during the installation.

echo action=nocheck > /tmp/admin
echo conflict=nocheck >> /tmp/admin
echo idepend=nocheck >> /tmp/admin

To install the StarOffice packages :

pkgadd -n -a /tmp/admin -d . *

You can safely delete the Apache OpenOffice installation packages after the install is complete.

Uninstall

Do not delete the Apache OpenOffice files from the file system. We strongly recommend to use the Apache OpenOffice Java setup or the pkgrm tool to uninstall Apache OpenOffice. The Solaris package repository would become inconsistent if you remove the Apache OpenOffice files with rm -r.

• Become root if necessary

su -

• For a silent installation of Apache OpenOffice it is necessary to create an admin file. This avoids recurring queries at the installation.

echo action=nocheck > /tmp/admin
echo conflict=nocheck >> /tmp/admin
echo rdepend=nocheck >> /tmp/admin

• Remove all packages listed in the file

Depending on your Java environment you have to uninstall following three packages which including the Java Runtime Environment which was installed by the Apache OpenOffice installer. Uninstalling these packages could damage your Java environment.

pkgrm SUNWj5rt SUNWj5man SUNWj5cfg