Sorry - my previous posting got away before it was fully written and was also Cc'd to the wrong poster. I have now sent the correct reply to the OP and the list. Apologies!
RoryOF On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:05:52 +0000 Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:28:51 -0800 > Girvin Herr <ghe...@fastmail.com> 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: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
