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07-19-2012, 01:32 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Posts: 120
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open MS-office file in linux
I am getting problem in opening MS office file in my linux system
When i try to open the file, then i gets an error message
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Could not display "/root/Desktop/file.doc".
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How can i open and edit this file ?
Thanks
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07-19-2012, 03:05 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Japan
Distribution: Mostly Debian and CentOS
Posts: 6,726
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Hi,
what did you try to "open" the file with? Do you have openoffice.org, libreoffice, abiword, etc installed?
Evo2.
PS. It looks like you are running X as root... but that is for another thread.
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07-19-2012, 03:11 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2012
Distribution: Redhat,Fedora,centos
Posts: 17
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I think open office not installed in your linux
check #rpm -qa *open-office*
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1 members found this post helpful.
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07-19-2012, 03:32 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2011
Posts: 120
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OK
So how can i install it ?
Thanks
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07-19-2012, 04:57 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2008
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Redhat,Debian,Suse,Windows
Posts: 179
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Arjun
OK
So how can i install it ?
Thanks
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We do not know what distro you are using. So it is good to give you this link.
Download it and install.
http://www.openoffice.org/download/
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07-19-2012, 06:04 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Copenhagen DK
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
Posts: 17,519
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Fedora, Redhat EL6, CentOS 6 :
# yum install libreoffice-core libreoffice-writer
Backtrack 5 : apt-get install openoffice.org
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1 members found this post helpful.
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07-19-2012, 07:23 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.2
Posts: 18,403
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Don't download direct from that link; get it from your distro's repositories.
As above, you tell us what it is, we'll tell you how.
try this to find your distro+version
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07-20-2012, 02:33 AM
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Registered: Feb 2011
Posts: 120
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Quote:
Originally Posted by knudfl
Fedora, Redhat EL6, CentOS 6 :
# yum install libreoffice-core libreoffice-writer
Backtrack 5 : apt-get install openoffice.org
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Thanks for your help
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Originally Posted by chrism01
Don't download direct from that link; get it from your distro's repositories.
As above, you tell us what it is, we'll tell you how.
try this to find your distro+version
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Here is what i got
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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
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I am using backtrack 5 r2
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