On 22/06/13 12:29, Jeff Shearer wrote:
One of the freatures I find attractive in the open source community is
the ability to select applications that I enjoy. I have used Open
Office for years and would like to continue using Open Office. After
the install Open Office does not appear in. Office applications.
Please advise how I can install and use Open Office.
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: open office install fails
From: "Steven Post" <redalert.comman...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, June 22, 2013 6:34 am
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 06:17 -0400, Jeff Shearer wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I am using Debian 7. I "upgraded" from 6 recently. My attempt to
>> install the open office productivity suite seems to have failed.
>> While synaptic indicates it is installed, I cannot find it on the
>> reall bad new GUI. Also, I noted that none of the applications like
>> writer indicate they are installed. Do I need to install each of them
>> manually?
>
> OpenOffice was replaced by LibreOffice [1], this migration normally
> occurs automatically on upgrades from Squeeze.
> Make sure the package 'libreoffice' is installed, this will pull in
> Writer, Calc, etc.
>
> If you are using Gnome 3, you can find the application in the activities
> menu under applications - Office.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110623
>
Thanks,
Jeff Shearer, CISA, CISSP
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How did you install OOo ? For Libreoffice there is a dedicated package
providing the Gnome Applications menu integration, libreoffice-gnome.
Can't remember how that worked in OOo.
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Klaus
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