On 05/27/2007 06:15 PM, Russell Butler wrote: > Mark Imhoof wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have installed edubuntu 7.04 on my Dell Dimension pc. Everything works >> great except that none of the open office applications will open. When I >> go to applications - office. I see the database, word processor, >> spreadsheet and presentation icons. But when i click on them nothing >> happens. I have looked for help, but as yet haven't found anything that >> will work. Thanks! >> >> Mark > > Hi Mark > > A useful tip I found on linux is to open a shell (terminal) as a normal > user, then you may find that just entering "soffice" (no quotes) will > try to start the OpenOffice.org program. If that fails, navigate to the > installation directory (I think on ubuntu it is in > /usr/local/openoffice../program/ then put in " ./soffice" - note the "." > before it. If there is a problem it will very likely give an error > message and this will help your troubleshooting.
Good tip as it will also generally give an error message - for instance if you just try to run $ soffice in Ubuntu it will tell you: The program 'soffice' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-common However The Ubuntu version is located at: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice and if you: $ /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice it should run. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
