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Hagar Delest
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| Billyray wrote: | | However nothing works, and I can't find anything either. |
We need some details ! What happens ? Do you have the splash screen ? If you run OOo from the command line, what's the terminal log ?
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Billyray
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply! I couldn't find any of the OOo files after the installation was finished. The menu selections were there but didn't do anything. The only thing I can think of, was that it never really did install. I was starting to think no one would answer, so I've restored the backup image. I am back with OOo 2.0.2 again that comes standard with Ubuntu. I would really like to install version 2.2. I used the package manager to remove everything of my old OpenOffice, then I downloaded the new tarball from the OOo download for version 2.2, unpacked it to my home directory and followed the commands that were suggested. The system seemed to be busy doing a lot of stuff, creating programs I thought. But I couldn't find OpenOffice stuff anywhere, even after doing a search on OpenOffice of my hdd. I wasn't sure what to do next. I thought my system was messed up until someone replied, and after waiting several days, restored my backup image. 
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fachex
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I am in the same situation of Billray. My system, Ubuntu festy faw. Mine did not even create icons, so there was no way to even run the applications. The desktop integration did not work, I try to open an OO file and it can't find an application to open it and it tries to install OO from the repositories.
Help!
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Hagar Delest
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| fachex wrote: | | The desktop integration did not work, I try to open an OO file and it can't find an application to open it |
Are you sure you had completely removed the Ubuntu version ?
What's the terminal log of the desktop-integration installation ?
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jeanweber
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| fachex wrote: | | I am in the same situation of Billray. My system, Ubuntu festy faw. Mine did not even create icons, so there was no way to even run the applications. The desktop integration did not work, I try to open an OO file and it can't find an application to open it and it tries to install OO from the repositories. |
I see the same thing in Ubuntu, but I easily created my own launcher icon on the desktop and I start OOo from there, then open a file from within OOo. OOo won't start when I double-click on a file, but as I don't normally work that way it isn't a problem for me so I haven't tried to find a solution.
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Hagar Delest
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| fachex wrote: | | The desktop integration did not work |
Did you got any error message or did the package install fine ? Make sure there is no other OOo Ubuntu package installed in Synaptic (all openoffice.org2 packages with "ubuntu" in the version number must have been removed).
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apos
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:48 am Post subject: [SOLVED] |
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UPDATE - Problem solved
If you are extracting the openofiice.org packages be aware, that there is a subdirectory
| Code: | | DEBS/desktop-integration/ |
containing the package | Code: | | openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.2-9161_all.deb |
It took me a while to recogize this - probably others will have the same problem.
If you install it, you have all you need in you gnome-menu and all the mime integration.
ORIGINAL PROBLEM
Same problems here:
- Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 with Gnome
- Installed all official DEBS (incl. gnome-desktop-integration)
- Lack of mime integration (office documents are not recogized as such)
- no gnome menu entries.
To be able to use the common oo start programs (swriter, scalc, ...), I wrote a little script that makes symlinks in the /usr/bin directory.
In addition I did a menu entry for "/usr/bin/soffice" in my gnome menu as mentioned above.
But I think this is not a sufficient approach and just a quick hack.
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
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# do_symlinks for openoffice
OO_PROGRAM_PATH=/opt/openoffice.org2.2/program
BIN_PATH=/usr/bin
for ooprogram in soffice sbase swriter scalc sdraw simpress spadmin
do
rm $BIN_PATH/$ooprogram
ln -s $OO_PROGRAM_PATH/$ooprogram $BIN_PATH/$ooprogram
done |
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Algot Runeman
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: OOo 2.3 install over 2.1 |
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I used RPMs download of OOo 2.3 on Sept. 24, 2007 and then used Alien to create the debs packages, moved the appropriate desktop integration deb up to the RPMs/debs folder and used:
sudo dpkg -i *
After what appeared to be a successful install over 2.1 with the new 2.3 menu entries, but no OOo programs worked.
After tracking down some online help, that mentioned something about the shell launcher soffice, (on my system [/opt/openoffice.org2.3/program/soffice) I found that the shell launcher soffice had NO permissions.
Once I changed the permissions to 555 (read and execute) using su, all was well again. I cannot tell you why the launcher had no permissions. Maybe somebody else can enlighten us all.
Just for the record, I am running Ubuntu 5.04 --because my wireless works with it. Maybe it's nice to know you can use OOo 2.3 on such an outdated Ubuntu version. |
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Hagar Delest
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure but I think that you should not transfer the desktop-integration package in the parent folder. The package may need the other packages to be installed before so that the association works.
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Algot Runeman
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: desktop integration file |
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RE: Hagar de l'Est Sept. 25 comment:
You may be correct that it is best to leave the desktop integration file in its folder. I don't know.
Just for clarification.
I moved the desktop integration file after discarding the other files that were specific to other Linux distributions. I had received an error that the folder was not a valid file for the dpkg process.
I should point out that the menu items did create properly, they just failed to launch the application. Double clicking on a previously created OOo data file did not launch the appropriate application either.
I do not know if the dpkg process had already succeeded with the install before I moved the desktop integration file. As I use the program in my daily activities, I prefer not to uninstall OOo to test a reinstall now that the program is working.
The forum discussions, in general, are/have been useful to me, and I wished to add back a procedure that worked for me. |
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