On Friday May 18 2007 5:13 pm, quixote wrote:
> Downloaded, installed as root using rpm -Uvih *.rpm, just as in the
> instructions, but openoffice 2.2 is nowhere to be found. What is
> going on here? It would be so-o nice if, just once, installing
> OpenOffice could be a painless experience. I've been using it
> since before it reached 1.0, and every single time there are
> blankety-blank Issues.
>
> Details:
> using Fedora Core 3. I used:
> openoffice.org-core03u-2.2.0-9134.i586.rpm out of the many core
> rpms in the tar file.
> I installed in /usr/share/openoffice22
> It gave me the usual messages about "preparing" and then listed the
> various rpms and ended with 100% installed.
>
> After that it returned to the command prompt. There were no
> messages about anything further to do with the installation or any
> error messages.
>
> I also went into the desktop-integration subdir and installed the
> redhat rpm there. It seemed to proceed normally, and ended with
> the message that it was updating mimetypes.
>
> I don't know if the installation is complete. There's a huge
> number of files in /opt/openoffice.org2.2, which parallels my
> working installation of openoffice.org2.0, but I can't find an
> executable that'll actually start the program. When I try to run
> /usr/bin/openoffice.org2.2, I get these error messages:
>
> line 2: /etc/openoffice.org2.2/program/soffice: No such file or
> directory line 2: exec: /etc/openoffice.org2.2/program/soffice:
> cannot execute: No such file or directory
>
> So what's going on? Hope someone has an *easy* fix! ;)
First of all, if you used rpm -Uvih *.rpm, without any further
modifications, you installed OOo in the /opt/ directory as you
noticed. The executable you probably want
is /opt/openoffice.org2.2/program/soffice. Entering this in a command
line or browsing to it and clicking it should start OOo 2.2.
Dan
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