[CentOS] Trying to get up and running with Open Office beta

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.GOV
Wed Aug 3 18:37:41 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 01:14 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> >There are a whole slew of packages in the Beta.  On my system they are
> >on the KDE menus and the binaries can be found in
> >/opt/openoffice.org1.9.113/program/ - this needs to be on your path.
> >  
> >
> I can see all the programs in /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122/program/ but I 
> can't figure out how to get them onto my panel or anywhere in the menus. 
> It would be ncie to be able to access them from the panel.
> 
> When I right click on the panel, it gives me the option to "Add", and 
> then I can select applications from drop down menus, but they're all the 
> same applications available in the Applications drop down on the far 
> left hand side of the panel.
> 
> How do I get my OpenOffice Beta available by clicking an icon? I'm using 
> KDE.

All I did was install pretty much every possible package - a bit hard to
figure out which one does what - and the entries showed up on my menu.
Here's my list of packages:

openofficeorg-base-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-calc-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core01-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core02-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core03-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core03u-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core04-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core04u-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core05-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core05u-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core06-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core07-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core08-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core09-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-core10-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-draw-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-gnome-integration-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-graphicfilter-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-impress-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-javafilter-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-math-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-pyuno-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-redhat-menus-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-spellcheck-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-testtool-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-writer-1.9.113-1
openofficeorg-xsltfilter-1.9.113-1

> And how to I associate .ods files with OpenOffice Beta? When I right 
> click on them, I can select to "Open With..."

Haven't actually done that, but should be possible to do the
associations.

> and search in the 
> directory, but I can't figure out which file is an executable program. 
> They aren't labelled "calc" and "write" or anything like that.

All executables in my directory:

[prs at hazard2 program]$ /bin/ls -alF /opt/openoffice.org1.9.113/program/ | grep "\*"
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     1512 Jun 28 17:17 cde-open-url*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     3677 Jun 28 17:17 configimport*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    70036 Jun 28 17:17 configimport.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     2685 Jun 28 17:17 crash_report*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    56060 Jun 28 17:17 crash_report.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     1358 Jun 28 17:17 gnome-open-url*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     4580 Jun 28 17:17 gnome-open-url.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     4692 Jun 28 17:08 gnome-set-default-application*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root   414026 Jun 28 17:13 hid.lst*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    10916 Jun 28 17:17 javaldx*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     1394 Jun 28 17:17 kde-open-url*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    23296 Jun 28 17:17 libnpsoplugin.so*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    20384 Jun 28 17:17 msfontextract*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    43080 Jun 28 17:17 nsplugin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     3098 Jun 28 17:17 open-url*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     5936 Jun 28 17:17 pagein*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        6 Jul 14 15:09 pkgchk -> unopkg*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root   111584 Jun 28 17:17 pkgchk.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    29676 Jun 28 17:17 pluginapp.bin*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Jul 14 15:20 python -> python.sh*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     4106 Jun 28 17:16 python.sh*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       61 Jun 28 17:12 sbase*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       61 Jun 28 17:11 scalc*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       61 Jun 28 17:12 sdraw*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     6361 Jun 28 17:17 senddoc*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     3677 Jun 28 17:17 setofficelang*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    25656 Jun 28 17:17 setofficelang.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       64 Jun 28 17:12 simpress*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       61 Jun 28 17:12 smath*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     7429 Jun 28 17:17 soffice*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root   287348 Jun 28 17:17 soffice.bin*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Jul 14 15:09 spadmin -> soffice*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    24328 Jun 28 17:17 spadmin.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       63 Jun 28 17:10 swriter*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root   567336 Jun 28 17:13 testtool.bin*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        6 Jul 14 15:09 uno -> unopkg*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root   166428 Jun 28 17:17 uno.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root     4676 Jun 28 17:17 unopkg*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root    93540 Jun 28 17:17 unopkg.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root      783 Jun 28 17:17 uri-encode*
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root       61 Jun 28 17:17 viewdoc*

There is a wrapper script /usr/bin/openoffice.org-1.9 that is used in
the menus, e.g. for writer "/usr/bin/openoffice.org-1.9 -writer %U".
There are also the scripts above, e.g. swriter that call up the
applications.

[prs at hazard2 program]$ pwd
/opt/openoffice.org1.9.113/program
[prs at hazard2 program]$ file swriter
swriter: Bourne shell script text executable
[prs at hazard2 program]$ cat swriter
#!/bin/sh

cmd=`dirname "$0"`/soffice
exec "$cmd" -writer "$@"

[prs at hazard2 program]$  

Don't know why they've deviated from the "oowriter", etc. found in the
RH/FC packages.  Back to the StarOffice roots I guess.


> >My $0.02 - wait until somebody comes out with a set of CentOS4 upgrade
> >packages.
> >
> Well, yes, I could do that. Except I'm impatient and demanding. And 
> somewhat foolhardy... or perhaps just foolish.

I can relate to that.

> After all, I did install 
> an entire operating system without really knowing what I was doing.

That's pretty much how we all got here.  We're all learning.

Phil





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