NeoOffice patch requires /Applications

[pike]

Hi

the neooffice patch refuses to .. patch neooffice .. if it's not installed in /Applications. that gave me a startling win98 feeling for a few seconds .. where most software needed to be installed in C:\\Program Files\

I keep 3rdparty software somewhere else. /Applications tends to fill up with osware anyway.

$2c,
*pike

[sardisson]

See Using_NeoOffice/J Outside of /Applications in the wiki.

Unfortunately, OpenOffice.org began its life as a Windows program, and most Unix-like OSes also install their apps in a fixed place, like /opt/openoffice.orgn.n.n, so it's been an uphill battle for what few Mac developers there are to get everyone else to stop hardcoding pathnames inside the app and the user files

Smokey

[Max_Barel]

This is not obvious from this thread nor the wiki (i'll update it in a minute if my login is still active after spam cleanup):

It's easy to install Neo/J to another volume.
If you have several partitions or physical disk, just create an "Applications" folder at the root of this volume and it will be offered as a choice for the installation and patches thereafter.

I'm using it this way from the very begining since i'm keeping my "/Applications" folder in the original "Apple" state. Only genuine applications are there. I manage three other folders for third party applications.

Max

[sardisson]

Thanks, Max! That's a good tip, and I wasn't aware of it

Smokey