Your rants are a bit unfair. (Except for/net vs. -net... that one upset me for awhile too)
1. Re: Installing in a lab/lots-of-machines
You don't need to run the installer a bu-gillion times. Install it on one machine, tar up the installed image (/usr/local/staroffice52), untar onto as many other (similarly configured) machines as desired.
2. install wrapper to ensure setup is run before StarOffice:
This happens already. If a user attempts to run staroffice, and it hasn't already been setup, it'll run the setup automatically.
Your rants are a bit unfair. (Except for /net vs. -net ... that one upset me for awhile too)
1. Re: Installing in a lab/lots-of-machines
You don't need to run the installer a bu-gillion times. Install it on one machine, tar up the installed image (/usr/local/staroffice52), untar onto as many other (similarly configured) machines as desired.
2. install wrapper to ensure setup is run before StarOffice:
This happens already. If a user attempts to run staroffice, and it hasn't already been setup, it'll run the setup automatically.