No OO icons in Application menu after install
 

Problem: In just installed OpenOffice 2.0 beta on Fedora Core 3 using RPM. I can tell in Synaptic that it's installed, but I don't see icons in the Applications menu (where there used to be OO 1.13 icons before I uninstalled it). How do I put icons there?
Caveat: I'm a newbie.
Thanks,
David

Well there are many ways to do the same thing. Here is one way to do it

Open up terminal, type in oo and then press tab, it will give you all the program that start with oo*, you will get something like below ( im using oo 1.1.0 )

now use whereis to find out path

I assume you are using KDE, right click on Kmenu and launch Menu Editor, and here you can add oo in menu ( specify path and icons etc. )

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, when I typed in oo and pressed tab, nothing happened. It just sat there. I also typed in whereis oowriter and came up with nothing. I did a locate oowriter and came up with nothing.

I'm using Gnome, not KDE (how can I verify?).

Any other ideas? Thanks.

David

chances are then that it didn't get installed or it is in a directory not set in your search path (second one is pretty unlikely) You can search your system for it with this command

find / -name oowriter 2> /dev/null

on my system it is in /usr/bin so you may want to cd to that directory and check to see if it is there.

also you can use rpm to check the install rpms on your system with this command

rpm -qa | grep openoffice ( the | is the result of shift + \ keys)

here is what i get on my system.

[jeff@localhost jeff]$ rpm -qa | grep openoffice
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.3-9.4.0.fc2
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.3-9.4.0.fc2
openoffice.org-1.1.3-9.4.0.fc2

by the last result i can tell it is installed on my system for sure. Once you figure out where it is this is how you make a desktop icon for it in GNOME

1. right click on the desktop
2. choose Create Launcher
3. in name field put "Open Office" (This is the name of the icon so make sure whatever it is you at least know it refers to Open Office - you could do word processor or something as well)
4. in command field type the full path of where the command is. so for oowriter on my system it would be /usr/bin/oowriter
5. in the box that says "No Icon" click and it will bring up a browser to pick the icon

good luck. :)

Ahhhh, figured it out. I didn't do the install right. I found another post somewhere that explained I needed to move the Red Hat menu rpm into the folder with the other RPMs:

quote:
4.Delete any rpm files that do not apply to your system. For example, on a Fedora Core 3 system, delete any rpms specific to another distribution such as openofficeorg-suse-menus-1.9.79-1.noarch.rpm.

Ignore this – instead copy openofficeorg-mandriva-menus-1.9.10-1.noarch.rpm from the RPMS subfolder “desktop-integration” into the main RPMS folder (so it's together with calc, core01, core02 etc)

5.Then execute rpm -Uvih *rpm.

Probably not quite. Execute (from the RPMS directory):

rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *.rpm
unquote:

I uninstalled openoffice using Synaptic and then followed those instructions. Voila!

David