OpenOffice 2.0 - Manual Installation

[Alfred Vahau]

With a bit more searching, I manage to zero in on the executable. To 
fire up oo2.0, the executable was soffice.bin found in my case in 
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.bin

I'm going to make symlinks to the files as well as put it on system menu 
on the desktop.

Just for information on those who might be interested in the manual 
installation, the steps are:

1. Download openoffice2.0
2. Unpack the rpm files into a temporary directory
3. Run the alien command to change the rpms to deb packages:  alien *rpm
4. Install the deb packages: dpkg -i  *deb
5. Change to the root directory and find where soffice.bin is installed 
on your system

cd /; find . -name "soffice" -print

6. Change to the  directory and issue the command ./soffice.bin to fire 
up oo2.0

That's about it.

Add symlinks or the path to the executables to suit you.

Alfred,




Alfred,


Alfred Vahau wrote:

> This is strange. /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0 does not exist and I've 
> manually scanned that directory to confirm.
>
> Going into the root directory / I issued
>
> find . -name "openoffice.org*" -print
>
> and this returns all paths with openoffice.org in then but there is 
> nothing to suggest an executable file that can fire up openoffice2.0.
>
> I will continue the search for the executable.
>
> Where are the executables stored in the absence of a traditional 
> install via confgure, make, make install?
>
> Alfred,
>
>
> Ryan Escarez wrote:
>
>>On 10/28/05, Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Thanks this worked. Now from the shell I type oowriter for instance and
>>>openoffice1.1 is fired up.
>>>This is not what I expected as  I have just installed openoffice2.0 via the
>>>dpkg -i *deb command.
>>>
>>>Alfred,
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>a symlink is probably the issue here. trying this might help
>>
>>$ openoffice.org-2.0
>>
>>or
>>
>>$ /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0
>>
>>
>>for the first time you run this, a wizard will appear.
>>
>>
>>hth!
>>
>>--
>>Ryan Escarez
>>CEBB F1E4 1E39 EC48 F05D  6B72 9C11 DD88 5E39 E471
>>$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x5E39E471
>>main(k){float i,j,r,x,y=-16;while(puts(""),y++<15)
>>for(x=0;x++<84;putchar(" .:-;!/>)|&IH%*#"[k&15]))
>>for(i=k=r=0;j=r*r-i*i-2+x/25,i=2*r*i+y/10,j*j+i*i<11&&k++<111;r=j);}
>>
>>  
>>
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