On Wednesday 23 July 2014 14:20:56 you wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Andrea Pescetti > <pesce...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > On 23/07/2014 JD wrote: > >> in /usr/bin, I have: > >> $ ls -l /usr/bin/*office* > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root jd 32 Jul 23 12:18 /usr/bin/ooffice -> > >> /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice > > > > This is a symlink you put there, right? > > YES. > Reason is that libreoffice has already stolen soffice in /usr/bin, > and believe it or not, it has also stolen ooffice. Both of which link > to libreoffice. So I broke the link /usr/bin/oofice -> libreoffice > and made it link to > /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice. > > >> However, if I execute /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice from the > >> terminal, openoffice runs. > > > > The best way to launch OpenOffice is to make a shell alias. If this > > is > > unacceptable to you, make a one-line shell script that in turn > launches > > > /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice and it will work too. > > I have already created the shell alias. But I was hoping > to launch it from gui because some attachments I get are MS doc > types, and want to automagically open them with > /bin/ooffice > which at this point does no look possible. > > >> So, soffice script takes arg0 and blithely assumes that <arg0>.bin > > exists, > > >> and tries to exec it. > >> Why should a script assume that? It is at least dangerous, > >> especially if executed by a superuser!! > > > > This is how it works indeed: sd_binary=`basename "$0"`.bin > > I haven't investigated it further, but if the .bin file needs to be > > in > > the (non user-writable) "program" directory too this could be a > mitigating factor. Development-related matters are discussed on the > dev list http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html where you > can raise the issue or propose patches to the shell script. > > > My past experience with dev lists have not proven fruitful, and thus > I hesitated to subscribe to the dev list. >
I download and install the packages from LO & AOO. Libreoffice installed this way uses the command : libreoffice4.2 %U, AOO uses soffice..both exist together..I just don't get to use the distro packages for LO..fine by me. -- Peace, Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
