On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and > decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz > which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ > > The only hitch during installation was some message about no Java and > Javascript found, which I took to mean it didn't know where to find > them,and since there are a lot of folders and directories with java > in their title I chose not to provide info where it could find > them,perhaps someone could suggest exactly which directory/folder I > should tell it to go and look for. > > Now of course I need to create a subsection in Kstart-Office and some > symlinks to the apps, I believe i know how to do that, my problem is > I don't know where exactly the apps are , and indeed what they are > called. > > So if any of you more accomplished OO1 users can point me at either > the right java settlings, and / or , the apps location please do > enlighten me.
The OO setup is poor and does only a fraction of what's needed with KDE :( There are a lot of files and folders with 'java' in their name which haven't got anything to do with the Java runtime environment. which is what you need. If you've installed it the most likely place is: /usr/lib/<folder name related to Java version>/bin Type 'locate java*' from the command line; that should return a whole screed of files and, if there are two named: /usr/lib/<folder name related to Java version>/bin/java /usr/lib/<folder name related to Java version>/bin/java_vm your Java runtime environment is there. If they aren't present you haven't installed Java before, the best thing to do is to download the Java runtime environment from Sun at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html (the 'Linux Red Hat RPM shell script'). Downloading and installing should put the Java runtime environment in: /usr/lib/jre_1.4.0/bin If you install OO to <installation directory> (I used /opt/openoffice) the executable files are in: <installation directory>/program and have cryptic names such as 'swriter', 'simpress' and so on. Icons are buried deep in: <installation directory>/share/kde/net/mimelink/share/icons Below that there are various icon sets (32x32 and 48x48 pixels, high colour and 256 colours). If you don't want to create shortcuts yourself you can drag precast '*.desktop' shortcut files from <installation directory>/share/kde/net/applnk/OpenOffice.org 1.0 to the desktop, but you'll have to add the appropriate icon yourself anyway (right mouse button on the '?' icon when it's on the desktop then select Properties ...). Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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