On 01/23/2009 12:31 AM, Keith Bates wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:28:42 +0200 > Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2009/1/22 NoOp <[email protected]>: >> > That is because the PPA overwrites your existing Ubuntu OOo and >> > installs in it's place, so you need to look for ooffice: >> > >> > ~$ locate ooffice >> > >> > will show you that ooffice is located at /usr/bin/ooffice and if you >> > look at the file you'll find that it is a shell that points to >> > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice >> > >> > So, you wish to open Writer specifically you can do two things: >> > >> > 1. From your Office menu click on the Writer icon which uses: >> > ooffice -writer %U >> > 2. From a terminal: >> > ~$ ooffice -writer >> > or >> > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer >> > >> > >> >> Thanks, Gary. The "oofice -writer" command also shows the splash >> screen briefly, then disappears and nothing else. I must ^C to get my >> terminal back, as it keeps running. >> >> I removed OOo 2.4 before installing 3.0. Would it be advisable to >> install 2.4 and _then_ install 3.0?
@ Dotan: I did not remove the 2.4 version when I installed the PPA version on my test machine. I just installed the PPA & so far seems to be working fine. Perhaps this is another KDE vs Gnome issue? You can try reinstalling (U)2.4 and then reinstalling the PPA to see if that changes anything. >> > I use this: > > /opt/openoffice.org3/program/swriter > > It runs fine. Ubuntu 8.10 > > I have an icon on my panel which points to this address. > > soffice -writer file-name also works for me when opening a particular > file. > > @ Keith: Ah, but are you running the PPA version or the standard OOo 3 version from OpenOffice.org? The PPA version shouldn't put anything in /opt. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
