openoffice 2.2.0 installation in mandriva 2007

sundararaman · 04-11-2007, 09:22 PM

Hai
I am using Mandriva 2007. I downloaded Openofffice 2.2.0. I unpacked the tar and from RPMS directory ran the following command
rpm -Uivh *.rpm
after this from the desktopintegration i ran the rpm command for mandriva as well the rpm command for free desktop integration. after this i logged out and relogged. even after this the new openoffice is not to be seen in the menu. kindly guide me
Thanx in advance

reddazz · 04-12-2007, 12:45 PM

Take a look at this thread. Where it says *redhat*, change that to *mandriva*.

sundararaman · 04-12-2007, 08:35 PM

Thanx reddazz for responding to my query. however as you could see from my post I have already ran the rpm command. inspite of that i am not able to access the new openoffice. can u please help me?

reddazz · 04-13-2007, 02:47 PM

It seems like you did not install the openoffice Mandriva menu rpm which is in the desktop-integration subdirectory where the openoffice rpms are located.

sundararaman · 04-14-2007, 12:22 PM

Thanx Reddazz
I have already did that but with no success

ieatsplaydoh · 04-14-2007, 12:29 PM

hit alt-F2, then type in oofromtemplate into the little box

sundararaman · 04-16-2007, 04:07 AM

Thanx ieatsplaydoh, however this option of oofromtemplate is available in openoffice2.1.0. it is not available in openoffice 2.2.0 . I am using KDE desktop and my distro is Mandriva 2007. please guide me

reddazz · 04-16-2007, 06:46 AM

If you installed the menus rpm, then try doing "update-menus -v". If that does not work, then hopefully someone else can come along with a solution because I am running out of ideas. You obviously can create the entries manually but that is a bit tedious.

sundararaman · 04-18-2007, 07:28 AM

I saw a post in linuxforum which I give hereunder:

I have the same problem with Mandriva 2007/KDE

To fix it here, I edited /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.1 to read:
Code:

#!/bin/sh
exec /opt/openoffice.org2.1/program/soffice "$@"

then changed all the KDE menu items to point to /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.1

You could do a:

Code:
ln -s /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.1 /usr/local/bin/soffice

My question is will this help me in any manner? where should I create the symbolic link?