On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:05:12PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sunday 23 January 2005 2:28 pm, Chris Green wrote:
I have just downloaded and installed Open Office 1.1.4, it all went quite smoothly. However there is just one little problem, there's no clue anywhere on how to actually run it now I have installed it!
Is some part of the installed Open Office hierarchy supposed to be on my PATH?
OOo should do it, you can also start a specific component eg. OOo-writer OOo-calc OOo-draw
No, none of those are on my path, I can't see anything like them anywhere.
and so on, if you haven't done so already you may need to run the OOo-setup component as well.
So where would I find that! :-)
Your desktop menu should have been populated by the install scripts
What 'desktop menu', I'm not running KDE or Gnome.
I've looked in /opt/openoffice (which is where I told it to install) and running /opt/openoffice/soffice starts up something which might be OpenOffice but it's not very convincing. The help works but trying to follow it doesn't seem to work.
I'm specifically trying to use the database components of openoffice, when I look in the help to find out how to connect to a database using ODBC it tells me to open the Tools->Datasources->General tab but I don't have Datasources in my Tools menu.
It may be wonderful in a Windows lookalike environment like KDE or Gnome but I'm trying to get away from there! :-)