Blackbox wont run OpenOffice
 

If I type swriter at the cli OO writer opens up, but when I click it on BBs menu, nothing happens. Why?

Ted.

Open your ~/.blackbox/menu file in your favourite editor. You should have an entry like:

[exec] (OpenOffice Writer) {swriter}

Thanks for the reply.

I do, but it doesn't work. My entry is [exec] (Writer) {swriter}. Everything else is running great.

do a "whereis swriter" and try adding the full path of the executable

I did that too. I tried [exec] (Writer) {/home/mooreted/OpenOffice.1.1.1/program/swriter} and it still wouldn't load.

Just to see what would happen I made a simbolic link to swriter like so:

ln -s /home/mooreted/OpenOfficeorg1.1.1/program/swriter writer

When I run ./writer I get this error message:

./writer: line 11: /home/mooreted/soffice: No such file or directory
./writer: line 11: exec: /home/mooreted/soffice: cannot execute: No such file or directory

What the heck is going on? Do I need to reinstall OO?

Ted.