Hi Doug, On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:48:17AM -0500, Doug wrote: > Reminder: I'm running PCLinuxOS-KDE. > > I once again extracted the downloaded file > "Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz" > which created a tremendous batch of rpms in a subsubdirectory /en-US/RPMS. > From that directory, ran the code: rpm -Uvh *.rpm > which created a batch of ooo2* files. > I could not extract any /desktop-integration RPMS--even the mandriva > one, which I thought would work, since PCLOS > is a derivative of Mandriva. Error message was "Can't create > transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db000 (no such file or directory)"
Try creating that directory as superuser su - mkdir -p /var/lib/rpm/ Then cd desktop-integration/ and install the freedesktop-menus package, it is likely to work on every modern distribution. > None of the OpenOffice programs (writer, calc, etc) appear in the > PCLOS GUI menu, which they do on this machine. > I have looked in Synaptic, and all the files are the same in both > machines and listed as installed. You can always run the programs from the command line > I don't know how to get any of the OO files to appear on the desktop > or to run. One of the problems is that I have > no idea what the names of the executable files are, or where they > are located. The applications are launched by shell scripts in /opt/openoffice.org3/program Base: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/sbase Calc: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/scalc Draw: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/sdraw Impress: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/simpress Math: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/smath The StartCenter: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice Pritner admin.: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/spadmin Writer: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/swriter But better try installing the desktop-integration package. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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