On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:28:51 -0800 Girvin Herr <[email protected]> wrote:
> JD, > > Are you trying to run AOO from a shell command line or in an xterm > inside your desktop? > > If the former, keep in mind AOO requires a desktop (xfce, kde, etc) to > run under (unless you are trying to run as "headless"). I don't know > what AOO will do running from a shell command line without a desktop and > without the headless option. > > I checked my Slackware Linux system and there is no soffice symlink in > /usr/bin. I did find a /usr/bin/openoffice4 script which runs > /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice "$@". So you might try running > /usr/bin/openoffice4 instead of /usr/bin/soffice. > > Try running openoffice4 from an xterm in your desktop and see if there > are any messages spit out on the xterm. If so, the message may give you > a hint. > > HTH. > > Girvin Herr This posting on the OO Forum gives a solution for running OO 4.1.5 on Fedora 27. It may be of assistance. RoryOF > > > > On 01/26/2018 05:12 PM, JD wrote: > > Hi all, > > 1. I first UNINSTALLED LibreOffice, only to find 2 mate desktop > > packages depend on some libreoffice package. So, now I have something > > slightly broken in my dnf database. > > > > 2. In downloaded AOO, and I installed it without any problems. > > > > 3. from the command line, I executed /usr/bin/soffice which is a > > symlink to > > /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice > > 4. Nothing happens. NOTHING!!!! Waited for many minutes. Nothing!!! > > > > So, what do you suggest I do? > > > > P.S: on older fedora releases, I had no such problem. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
