* Charles Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020310 10:35]: > My error was in the path I entered in the properties box. > > I had originally entered > > /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641/program > > But once I shortened this to > > /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641 > > It worked fine. > > I am happy with this, but if anyone can tell me where I might find my > PATH statement, or why Jan's LN suggestion did not work, I would greatly > appreciate it.
There's a good chance that the difference is in the directory structures. If you installed it from an RPM (or even if from a .tar.gz) it was probably put in a different spot. I installed from the .tar.gz from OpenOffice.org, and by default it installs in /opt/buildnum/ where buildnum is something like the OpenOffice.org641 you have above. Then there is a program directory that has the actual executables in it. They also have a link from the "buildnum" directory. I usually don't like to link to links, so ... If somebody suggests making a symbolic link, like: ln -s target link_name or ln -s target directory the first thing you should check is to see that the target actually exists, and if to a directory, that the directory actually exists. man ln for more information on links Also, echo $PATH should tell you what your path is; finding what makes it is more involved because there are several rc files that may mess with it. I personally dislike things that do set PATH=$PATH:another_dir because you often see the same directory added to the path more than once :-( If you are willing to take responsibility for your own PATH, you can change the line in .bash_profile from PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin to something like: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/kde/bin\ :/usr/games:$HOME/bin (if you can do it all on one line, take out the \ ) make sure there is a line that says something like export PATH The good thing about this is that other things will be less likely to mess with your path. Of course, if Mandrake decides you need something else in your path, you'll have to add it manually. -- 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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