open office does not launch from launcher
 

I am new to Linux and have just installed openSuse 10.2 and openOffice 2.1 . At first, I could launch openOffice from the launcher icon and from openOffice documents. Now, when I click on the launcher or a document, nothing happens. I can get openOffice to load by clicking on usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/soffice.bin I investigated the launcher, and it has a command oofromtemplate, which if I type directly into the console, produces the error message:

mkimpel@mark:~> oofromtemplate
Error forking '/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program//soffice': 'Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/soffice" (Permission denied)'


Has something become corrupted? I have uninstalled and reinstalled openOffice using Yast and that did not fix the problem.

Thanks,
Mark

Hey,

From the console you should be able to launch openoffice with:

openoffice.org-2.1

What desktop environment are you using, GNOME or KDE?

Chris.

console command doesn't open openOffice
 

I tried openoffice.org-2.1 from the console and received the message "command not found". It's like the system has lost track of the fact that oo is installed.

I am using Gnome.

thanks,
Mark

You should be able to change the command that the launcher uses to run. Replace the existing command with the one you know works. Then you might want to have a look at your desktop menu entry for open office as well and make sure that is using the command that works. The launcher was probably opening a text document template by default which may have been changed or removed or something. Anyway you can just change the command to run the soffice.bin executable.

hth,

lordtweety

very strange!!:scratch:

At the terminal enter:

ls -al /usr/bin/* | grep open*

in the output there should be a soffice file, if its there move it from /usr/bin to your home directory by entering, as root:

mv /usr/bin/soffice /home/user_name

then copy the file that you said launches openoffice with, as root:

cp /path/to/openoffice/launcher /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.1

then retry the command,

openoffice.org-2.1

if it works try the launchers in the menu, if they don't come back here :-)

Chris.