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azerty

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Registered: 2007-08-23

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OpenOffice - How to start it?

I installed 'openoffice-base' but I can't start it (OpenOffice Writer for example) and 'ls /usr/bin | grep  open' doesn't show me anything related to openoffice. What's wrong here?

Do I have to install some more Packages or what?

Last edited by azerty (2007-09-07 11:46:40)

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gothmog.todi

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Registered: 2007-07-18

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Re: OpenOffice - How to start it?

openoffice-base should be sufficient.

try running /usr/bin/soffice

natalian

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Registered: 2007-09-06

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Re: OpenOffice - How to start it?

you can look in the pkg next time

[nataljan@zerospace  ~]# pacman -Ql openoffice-base | grep bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/configimport.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/crash_report.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/gengal.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/gnome-open-url.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/legacy_binfilters.rdb
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/legacy_binfilters.rdb.1.1
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/libbindet680li.so
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/libbindet680li.so.1.1
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/libindex_data.so
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/libindex_data.so.1.1
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/liblegacy_binfilters680li.so
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/liblegacy_binfilters680li.so.1.1
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/pkgchk.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/pluginapp.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/setofficelang.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/spadmin.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/testtool.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/uno.bin
openoffice-base /opt/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin
openoffice-base /usr/bin/soffice
openoffice-base /usr/bin/spadmin

soffice is the main binary

azerty

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Registered: 2007-08-23

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Re: OpenOffice - How to start it?

It works, thank you guys.

But why is it called 'soffice'? What does 's' mean?

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byte

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Re: OpenOffice - How to start it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#History

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