Installing Open Office On Fedora 8

Johnny England · #1 29th March 2008, 07:22 PM

Hello everyone, I am very new using Linux in general... I just recently jumped off the Windows bandwagon, so please bare with me. I just installed a fresh copy of Fedora 8 Live - i686, and realized that it didn't come with any real office package. So, I would like to put the latest version of Open Office on my machine, 2.4.0 I believe. In any case, I got my machine connected to the internet, after a huge hassle, and went into Applications>Add/Remove Software. After a little searching, I found all of the Open Office packages, had it run through its installation process, after which it said everything was ok. However, I have not been able to locate those installations on my machine. Open Office did not show up on any menus, and after searching though the directories, I just cannot find where it put it. I also tried installing Open Office manually, via a few command lines I found searching the net, but that also gave me several errors. If anyone knows the default location Fedora 8 installs its software to, I would be grateful, or perhaps if someone could explain how to get shortcuts posted to the Applications>Office menu as well. Thank you in advance!!!

Johnny England

Nokia · #2 29th March 2008, 07:53 PM

There isn't one for the moment. I saw only FC9 packages, but I'm sure it won't be long before it hits the updates.

Johnny England · #3 29th March 2008, 08:02 PM

What do you mean there isn't one? As I scrolled through the available packages, I saw all of the elements of Open Office... Writer, Draw, ect. Were those packages not meant for Fedora 8? If so, where can I find a build of Open Office for Fedora 8? Thank you.

Johnny England

EDIT: BTW, after all of the packages that I downloaded, there is a .fc8.i386. I can only assume that this means the build is for the i386 version of fedora 8... however I have the i686 build of fedora 8. Would that make a difference?

Johnny England

Nokia · #4 29th March 2008, 08:15 PM

There isn't a 2.4 version compiled right now. You can still install version 2.3 available in the repos

jim1944 · #5 29th March 2008, 08:39 PM

If you installed through add/remove programs from F8, then you would get OO 2.3. You should find it in /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/. To start one of the apps:

Code:

/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/soffice <app> &

at a command line where <app> is one of -calc, -draw, -impress, or -writer, depending on what application you want.

Don't know why you didn't get them added to your menus. They should have been.

Jim

LongeFlucht · #6 18th August 2008, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jim1944

If you installed through add/remove programs from F8, then you would get OO 2.3. You should find it in /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/. To start one of the apps:

Code:

/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/soffice <app> &

at a command line where <app> is one of -calc, -draw, -impress, or -writer, depending on what application you want.

Don't know why you didn't get them added to your menus. They should have been.

Jim

When I try to

Code:

ln /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/soffice /usr/bin/soffice

and then to run

Code:

soffice -impress

, I get squawked at. There's gotta be a way to start OpenOffice on the command line without such a long command. Any ideas, please?

Thanks a lot.

Johnny England · #7 29th March 2008, 09:05 PM

@jim1944: Thank you, I finally found the directory for the program. Have it up and running now. Any ideas how to manually add Open Office to the menu? Of course it is not mandatory that I have them in the menu, but it would simply be easier.

Johnny England

pete_1967 · #8 30th March 2008, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny England

@jim1944: Thank you, I finally found the directory for the program. Have it up and running now. Any ideas how to manually add Open Office to the menu? Of course it is not mandatory that I have them in the menu, but it would simply be easier.

Johnny England

When you install OO with Add/Remove programs,. the menu items are automatically created. On occasions you may have to log out and log in to your account again for them to show up.

jim1944 · #9 29th March 2008, 10:43 PM

Try system->preferences->look and feel->main menu.

I've never done it, but that looks like the place to go.

Jim

Nokia · #10 29th March 2008, 10:46 PM

Right click on Applications-Edit Menus - New Item

jim1944 · #11 29th March 2008, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nokia

Right click on Applications-Edit Menus - New Item

Ah yes. Quicker way to the same thing. Thanks.

Jim

pvalley67 · #12 30th March 2008, 09:22 AM

Johhny:

you can goto OOo.org donwnload the file unzip it open a shell and type:

./setup

should run just fine

dont forget to su first

paul

Froggg · #13 21st April 2008, 12:48 PM

Hello all. Like Johnny England, I'm new to Linux. I like what I see, but the learning curve is pretty steep for me (I'm old, but willing to learn). I'm running Fedora 8, and downloaded Open Office 2.4 and would like to install it, but am not sure how. Do I extract all the files and manually put them in the directories where the corresponding OO 2.3 files are? This seems like a very tedious way of doing it, or is there an easier way, and I'm just not seeing it. Also, I have a Lexmark X2470 printer, and Fedora and it aren't talking. Can anyone tell me where to get the printer driver for it? Thanks in advance.

markkuk · #14 21st April 2008, 02:46 PM

You must first remove the Fedora OpenOffice packages, e.g with "yum remove openoffice.org*" or with the equivalent GUI actions. Then you can install the OO2.4 by following the instructions: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/...Installing_OOo

marko · #15 21st April 2008, 03:24 PM

Unless you really want OO 2.4 for some reason, this is *much* simpler:

Quote:

yum groupinstall "Office/Productivity"

This gets all the main OO packages, installs them and sets up the menu so
the OO stuff is in the Office menu item (this is what it does on KDE,
it would be similar for Gnome desktop)

Or another nice option, use yum to install yumex, then use yumex to
pick and choose packages for OO out of the Office/Productively group:

Quote:

yum install yumux
yumex

after it loads up, pick the second icon down the left side that looks like a folder, the
mouse should show it as "group view", pick "Applications" and
then "Office/Productivity" by clicking the ">" to expand the group
and pick the openoffice components you want, then hit the "Process Queue"
button in the lower right. It all's pretty self explanatory from there.
(mostly hitting "ok" buttons, etc)
Mark