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. > > Reply back to the list or post to a ubuntu list, whichever seems the > most likely to help.
And if you can't remember what the error message is, do "./soffice 2>$HOME/errorfile.txt and attach that to an e-mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
