* Charles Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020308 23:53]: > I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. > However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to > open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type > ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process?
You can put a link in any directory in your path (this could be in addition to placing an icon on your desktop or whatever). Open a terminal and type: echo $PATH This will show you which directories are searched when you type a command, and in which order. The colons are separators. Change to one of those directories ... and if you don't have write privileges, su to root: su And give the root password. Then make the link: ln -s /OpenOffice.org641/program/soffice ooffice You can name it something different if you like. Then from an command line you should be able to type: ooffice Or whatever you called it, and it should load up. We use OpenOffice.org 641C in our junior college lab with Mandrake 8.1, and LTSP 3.0 with very good results. OOo 1.0 will be out in maybe a month, and we're looking forward to that. BTW, OOo 642 is available now, but it is a development build, and NOT the release candidate for OOo 1.0. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML
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