Problem installing Open Office in Fedora 10

Chrissleigh · #1 9th February 2009, 11:22 AM

Hi,

Although I joined this forum some time ago, it is only in the last week that I have been trying to use Fedora so I am really an absolute beginner,

I have used Open Office in Windows, and thought it would be a good idea to install it in Fedora and have tried several times but have run into problems.

I opened Add/Remone Software and found Open Office. I put a tick/check in the box beside it and clicked 'Apply'. I got a message saying that 20 other bits of software were needed so I clicked 'Apply' again and this is as far as I got. The progress bar moved backwards and forwards in a Window headed "waiting for other tasks" and nothing else appeared to be happening.

The first time I tried and this happened, I tried to stop it after about 15 minutes, thinking something had hung, but was unable to and made the mistake of turning off the computer. The next time I booted, I could only get a command line - no desktop - and had to re-install Fedora.

The next attempt to install OO.o produced exactly the same result with yet another reinstallation of Fedora. Today I appear to be getting another negative result; after half an hour the progress bar is still moving and the hard disc light flickers from time to time but nothing else appears to be happening.

Is Open Office (version 3.x) incompatible with Fedora or does it just take a day to be installed? How can I abandon this attempt without ending up having to reinstall Fedora yet again?

movilogo · #2 9th February 2009, 11:35 AM

I recently install OO3 on Fedora 10.

I downloaded the compressed file from OO website. Then deflated them and ran the ./setup script as root.

That script starts graphical OO installer and everything went fine. Takes around 10-15 minutes to install (after downloading)

It didn't create the icons/program group for OO applications though - which I had to do manually.

Chrissleigh · #3 9th February 2009, 11:50 AM

Hi Movilogo,

Thanks for your message. I will try installing it as you did, rather than using the Add/Remove Software facility in System/Administration

Regards,
Chris

dragonbite · #4 3rd March 2009, 04:15 PM

I read a suggestion somewhere to install Yumex and you'll see OpenOffice in the packages or categories or whatever it's called (click on the folder icon to get to it).

I ran that the other night and it worked like a charm.

marcrblevins · #5 4th March 2009, 05:35 AM

I use it with yum.

Code:

su -
yum install openoffice.org-core.i386

Use:

Code:

yum search openoffice

To get the list of more openoffice you may need to install.

ebenkhaldoun · #6 11th June 2009, 07:25 AM

hello gentlemen,
i am facing this problem with several product. i am working on fedora 10.
i had installed the thunderbird application and it was very fine. i can use now the thunderbird normally. especially that i can find it in the menu.
BUT
i have installed the open office package provided by fedora, the installation was successful. but i cannot find the application in the menu. so i could not use the open office.
i tried to installed it again through console, it is saying that the package is already installed.

the problem is the package is not appearing in front of me to use it.

same thing for the remote desktop package, i have found the rdesktop package provided by the fedora, and i had install it, but it is not showing in front of me or in the menu.
when i try to install it again, it is saying that it is already installed.

of course i had restart the computer several times, but still the same.

kindly can you please advice for this issue.

thank you very much and regards,

sonoran · #7 11th June 2009, 08:00 AM

Hello ebenkhaldoun-

Have you tried the System/Preferences/Main Menu utility? Open Office might be there but you have to put a checkmark for it to appear in the menu. I think it is installed in the Office menu, you might have to check that also.

If that doesn't work, I think the command to start Open Office in a terminal is /usr/bin/soffice, which goes back to when it was Star Office.

Hope this helps. And welcome to Fedora Forum!

ebenkhaldoun · #8 11th June 2009, 11:42 AM

hello sonoran,
thank you very much for your kind welcome and your support.

""""Have you tried the System/Preferences/Main Menu utility?""""
i don't have Main Menu Utility in the preferences.

""""I think it is installed in the Office menu, you might have to check that also.""""
even it is not in the office menu, and i don't know how or from where i have to check it.

""""I think the command to start Open Office in a terminal is /usr/bin/soffice"""""
even writing the script it is not working.

i went to /usr/bin and i found the rdesktop but i didnot find the soffice or the open office.

it seems likr it is not installed.
but why when i try to install it again, it is saying that it is already installed?

and for rdesktop, it is not opening as an application. it seems that i should do it from the terminal. or i did not succeed to run it.

kindly can you advice in this?

thank you very much, you help is really appreciated.

sonoran · #9 11th June 2009, 06:59 PM

Hi ebenkhaldoun-

I'm using Fedora 11, under the System menu there is Preferences/Main Menu, but maybe F10 does not have that.

To find out what you have installed, in a terminal, as root, enter: yum list installed openoffice*

If it is installed, try: yum reinstall openoffice*

If not installed, then: yum install openoffice*

All this is easier to see with a gui - try: yum install yumex, then start yumex from the Applications/System Tools menu, it's called yum extender.

Note that using yum and openoffice* will pull in a lot of stuff - if you use yumex you can select individual parts of OpenOffice and not waste space on what you do not need.

Hope this works.