On 8/22/07, krishnakant Mane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > first I did alien -r *.rpm and then the first -i command along with --script. > this time no errors and no warnings. so far so good.
> but surprise! I don't have any thing in my applications/ office menu > except evolution. oops. this is nothing very startling. Its just that the desktop shortcuts and perhaps some gnome integration isn't there. Don't worry too much. > I tried finding hard and eventually got /opt/openoffice2.2.1 and in > the programs sub directory I found swriter, scalc etc. Its easy to create a shortcut for any program by creating a app-name.desktop in /usr/share/applications. Refer existing ones for help. > I can run them all right but now I can't create a shortcut in the > office menu nor on the desktop. The app-name.desktop will appear in your gnome menu. If you are the gui guy then System > Preferences > Main Menu should allow you to add the missing entries, assuming you are using gnome. All said and done try using the openoffice-gnome package which contains all the necessary files. regards, C -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
