On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:50 PM, MR ZenWiz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM, baldwin linguas > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I downloaded >> http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-rc2/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.3.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz >> from the libreoffice.org/download/ page. >> the file is >> LibO_3.3.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz >> It's from the LibreOffice site. >> This is the only download offered for my platform (debian 64 bit) on the >> site. >> I extracted the tarball, which then gives me a directory >> LibO_3.3.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US >> Inside of which are two more directories: >> DEBS, readme >> and a script >> update. >> This is a fresh install, not an update, so I entered the DEBS directory >> cd DEBS >> (there are a bunch of .deb files in there) >> then I installed the debs with dpkg >> dpkg -i *.deb >> > > That is also what I used, and it works fine for me (on Ubuntu 10.10). > > You mentioned that it installs into /opt (which is does for me, too), > but you are running soffice - do you have a libreoffice executable in > your path (s/b in /usr/bin) and have you tried that? It's a shell > script that sets up the proper execution environment to run > /opt/libreoffice/program/soffice (which is also a shell script that > runs the soffice.bin executable).
I wrote my own script and tucked it into /usr/local/bin (basically cd /opt/liberoffice/program ./soffice) but no such script was installed when I installed the debs. > > If this is not how you're running LO, something else may be wrong with > your installation that is beyond my scope of involvement. It's working now. I think I explained in another thread. I had copied my entire /home from my old machine, an x85 32bit celeron, and something in the ~/.libreoffice dir didn't agree with the amd64 version. I figured that out, deleted said dir, reinstalled, and all is good. Old age...I claim senility... ./tony -- http://www.baldwinlinguas.com http://www.baldwinsoftware.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
