On 01/24/2013 06:09 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
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
I made the /var/lib/rpm directory, as per instructions.and tried to run
the freedesktop file. It complained about not finding _db.000,
so I made that. Here's the /var/lib/rpm directory:
[doug@Dell ~]$ cd /var/lib/rpm
[doug@Dell rpm]$ sudo mkdir _db.000
Password:
[doug@Dell rpm]$ ls -la
total 57320
drwxr-xr-x 5 rpm rpm 4096 Jan 24 14:29 ./
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 4096 Jan 19 07:19 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 07:17 alternatives/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10625024 Jan 24 01:48 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jan 19 07:19 Conflictname
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 24 14:29 _db.000/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2506752 Jan 24 01:48 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10452992 Jan 24 01:48 Filedigests
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 23 11:38 filetriggers/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 Jan 24 01:48 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40960 Jan 24 01:48 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90112 Jan 24 01:48 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45056 Jan 23 15:30 Obsoletename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36610048 Jan 24 01:48 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1273856 Jan 24 01:48 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 229376 Jan 24 01:48 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jun 26 2012 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 577536 Jan 24 01:48 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 335872 Jan 24 01:48 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167936 Jan 24 01:48 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90112 Jan 24 01:48 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jan 24 01:44 Triggername
The _db.000 subsub directory is empty. After I created it,
I tried the freedesktop rpm again, and got this:
[doug@Dell desktop-integration]$ rpm -UVH
openoffice.org3.4-freedesktop-menus-3.4-9593.noarch.rpm
error: open of /usr/share/comps/i386/hdlist failed: No such file or
directory
And there is not even part of that tree:
[doug@Dell desktop-integration]$ cd /usr/share/comps/i386
bash: cd: /usr/share/comps/i386: No such file or directory
[doug@Dell desktop-integration]$ cd /usr/share/comps
bash: cd: /usr/share/comps: No such file or directory
There is, of courxe, /usr/share.
Thank you for your patience. Now what?
--doug
--
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.
M. Greeley
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