Apparently, though unproven, at 00:03 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Walter Dnes did opine thusly:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:21:21AM -0300, Fernando Antunes wrote > > > Yesterday I emerged Libreoffice-bin 3.4 and the installation worked fine. > > > > However, when I try to run it, I receive this error message : > > > > Failed to execute child process "libreoffice3.4" (No such file or > > directory). > > Applications generally do *NOT* use the version number in the > executable name, or even the fact that they're a "bin" version. You > just supply the base filename on the commandline. E.g., I have > "libreoffice-bin-3.3.2" installed. It is launched with the command > "libreoffice". I have "gimp-2.6.11" installed. It is launched with the > command "gimp". > > A few programs allow multiple versions. They have the real executable > in a working directory, and a symlink in /etc/usr/bin which points to > the real executable. So you launch the main version with the regular > command. You can also launch other installed versions by supplying the > full pathname to its working directory. +1 Looks like this ebuild was rushed. 3.4.0 fails for any language other than "en" due to a typo in the ebuild: #370179 AFAICS the desktop files are installed as-is from the rpms containing this: Exec=libreoffice3.4 --writer %U but there's a dosym call missing in the ebuild #370345 references the issue but it hasn't been addressed yet I have only two words: shoddy work -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
