script and makin' a shortcut
 

Hi everybody,
Can any of you help me figure this out. I just install a staroffice. Every time I wan tto rune it, I have to type "/usr/staroffice/soffice" if I'm not in the "/usr/staroffice". How to run the staroffice any where by just typing "soffice" like any other default shell program.

This is my second question. I just made a symbolic link at my ".gnome-desktop". This link points to the staroffice script in the "/usr/staroffice/". Every time I double click the symbolic it ask whether to view, execute or cancel. How to make it to just run the script without asking too many question.

Thanks everybody.

To answee your first question, you could try creating a link to /usr/staroffice/soffice like this:

ln -s /usr/staroffice/soffice /usr/local/bin/soffice

(then you could just type soffice). If that doesn't work, creating the following shell script in /usr/local/bin should work:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/staroffice
./soffice

then once you've saved that file do

chmod +x <name of the shell script file>
then you can still just type soffice (if you called the script soffice, that is)