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? -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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 and so on, if you haven't done so already you may need to run the OOo-setup component as well. Your desktop menu should have been populated by the install scripts
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! :-) -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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?
In whatever directory you installed it there is a script named soffice. Run this for the whole thing or soffice -writer for the word pro and similar params for other functions. Ian -- Ian T-Bell aka RuffRecords aka RedTommo
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:28:46 +0000, "Chris Green" <chris@areti.co.uk> said:
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?
-- Have you tried # find / -name "oowriter*" -type x -print
Cheers, Richard -- Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:21:26PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:28:46 +0000, "Chris Green" <chris@areti.co.uk> said:
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?
-- Have you tried # find / -name "oowriter*" -type x -print
Yes, I actually tried "find / -name 'oo*'" and got nothing. However, as others have suggested, it's started with 'soffice' so that's the first hurdle overcome. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
On Sunday 23 January 2005 15:50, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:21:26PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:28:46 +0000, "Chris Green" <chris@areti.co.uk>
said:
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?
--
Have you tried # find / -name "oowriter*" -type x -print
Yes, I actually tried "find / -name 'oo*'" and got nothing.
However, as others have suggested, it's started with 'soffice' so that's the first hurdle overcome.
On my Fedora Core 2 installation at work, the programs are oowriter, oocalc etc. At home on SuSE 9.1 I am unable to figure what the hell runs; it just does. -- GT
On Sunday 23 January 2005 3:50 pm, Chris Green wrote:
Yes, I actually tried "find / -name 'oo*'" and got nothing.
However, as others have suggested, it's started with 'soffice' so that's the first hurdle overcome.
It's really odd, on my system (SuSE 9.1) there are a bunch of symlinks in places like /usr/bin/X11 /usr/X11/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin. OOo and OOo-math OOo-writer and so on.... These all point to OOo-wrapper which is a script that ultimately referrs to soffice in my /opt/OpenOffice.org directory. So my previous instructions where probably very much SuSE specific...sorry
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