Openoffice 1.1.2 where is writer?

[earobinson111]

I just installed ooo 1.1.2 and i cant seem to find the writer, it used to be in main menu, office, wirter. I can run writer this way

 cd /home/earobinson/Desktop/earobinson/OpenOffice.org1.1.2
./soffice

I would like all the ooo programs in my main menu. How can i get them there?

[ghaefb]

How did you install OO 1.1.2 ?

[earobinson111]

I used the cd,
for a Multi-User install

-Go to the graphical X Window interface if it was not already automatically activated.
-Go to the installation directory either by command line in a terminal window or through the File Manager.
-Call the installation script with the command
./setup -net

Then i did this for the user

-Go to the graphical X Window interface.
-Open a terminal window and use the command line to go to the network installation path on the server and then to the program sub-directory. If the server installation was made in the directory /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0, this could be done using the command:
cd /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program
-Start the installation script with the command
./setup

This help at all?

[ghaefb]

Oh is see...
You got an OpenOffice 1.1.2 CD.

I've been trying to update FC2 OO 1.1.1 to 1.1.2, but I just didn't find rpm version yet.

[earobinson111]

Well u can dl it from the site no? I downloaded the cd cuz iI want to install on 2 windows computers as well.

[Lenard]

oo-1.12 rpms can be found at any of the http://fedora.redhat.com/ or mirror sites like;

http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core...6/Fedora/RPMS/

[earobinson111]

Ok but that dont fix my problem???

[earobinson111]

I would like to put ooo programs back into the main menu.

[fjleal]

You can create launchers for "oowriter", "ooimpress", "oocalc", etc, or "office -writer", "oofice -calc", etc.
If you want those launchers to show at your Gnome menu, under Ofice, create them in "applications:///Office". Log out and login again, and you're done.

(Note this works very well for Gnome 2.6.2. For 2.6.0, I think you must do that as root...)

[crackers]

The reason they didn't show up in the menus is because you did not install RPM packages that were specifically built for Fedora - those typically will add the menu items upon installation, whereas binaries will not - every distro puts system menus in slightly different formats in different places. In the case of "straight" binary installs, the "safest" and least troublesome approach is to not even attempt to update the menus.

[earobinson111]

Originally Posted by crackers

The reason they didn't show up in the menus is because you did not install RPM packages that were specifically built for Fedora - those typically will add the menu items upon installation, whereas binaries will not - every distro puts system menus in slightly different formats in different places. In the case of "straight" binary installs, the "safest" and least troublesome approach is to not even attempt to update the menus.

So should i uninstall ooo and wait for the fc2 rpms?

[crackers]

Originally Posted by earobinson111

So should i uninstall ooo and wait for the fc2 rpms?

That is an option. Or you can add them to the menus yourself.

[amilianjr]

I have found it easy to edit the KDE menu for instance to add links to the OpenOffice executables I installed from tgz files. Before I could ever succeed in editing the KDE menu in FC 2 though it was necessary to delete the files /home/username/etc/.config and /home/username/etc/.local where username is your login name. They will be restored on the next login. (In case you don't trust that, just back each one to files like .config.bak and .local.bak. Then they can be restored no matter what.)