Can't open openoffice 3.2 in gnome

[tlcoons]

I have installed open office using yum install.

To install OpenOffice you can use yum like:
connect to the internet
open a console
su -
root password
yum install openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-writer
(all on one line)

This will install the man packages for Openoffice. To see all packages available for OpenOffice use:

yum list openoffice*

I am running fedora 14.

I have no openoffice icons on the desktop, or items in the menus.

Thanks for your help.

[woelfman10]

You'll find OpenOffice.org under: Applications->Office
Application links aren't installed to (thus cluttering up) the desktop, so you won't find OO.o icons there either unless you create them yourself. Check to see if OO.o installed at all by trying to run it from the command line: 'oowriter' for example.

Cheers

[tlcoons]

Application->Office has no menu item for openoffice.
When trying to run it from the command line the following happens:

Command not found. Installing package 'openoffice.org-writer' to provide command 'oowriter'.
...proceed with changes? [N/y] y
...
*Testing changes.. Transaction failed: file conflicts, test transaction errors:
...

Thanks.

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I typed in a terminal as root.

[root@localhost /]# oowriter
Command not found. Install package 'openoffice.org-writer' to provide command 'oowriter'? [N/y]
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
The following packages have to be installed:
autocorr-en-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.noarch English autocorrection rules
hyphen-2.5-2.fc14.i686 A text hyphenation library
hyphen-en-2.5-2.fc14.noarch English hyphenation rules
silgraphite-2.3.1-3.fc14.i686 Font rendering capabilities for complex non-Roman writing systems
openoffice.org-opensymbol-fonts-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.noarch OpenOffice.org dingbats font
mythes-1.2.1-1.fc14.i686 A thesaurus library
openoffice.org-ure-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 UNO Runtime Environment
openoffice.org-brand-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 Core brand for OpenOffice.org
openoffice.org-core-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 Core modules for OpenOffice.org
libwpd-0.8.14-5.fc14.i686 Library for reading and converting WordPerfect documents
openoffice.org-writer-core-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 Word Processor libraries for OpenOffice.org
libtextcat-2.2-11.fc13.i686 Text Categorization Library
lucene-2.4.1-3.fc14.noarch High-performance, full-featured text search engine
Proceed with changes? [N/y]
* Waiting for authentication..
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
* Downloading packages..
* Checking signatures..
* Testing changes.. The transaction failed: file-conflicts, Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/bin/soffice from install of openoffice.org-brand-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9502.noarch
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.database.png from install of openoffice.org-core-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9502.noarch
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.database.png from install of openoffice.org-core-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9502.noarch
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.database.png from install of openoffice.org-core-1:3.3.0-13.3.fc14.i686 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9502.noarch
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.for...
[root@localhost /]# ^C
[root@localhost /]#

oowriter does not start from the command line.

[sonoran]

Try uninstalling openoffice and then installing again.

[JEO]

Try opening a terminal and remove the conflicting package:

su -
yum remove openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9502.noarch

Then retry the openoffice 3.3 install.

[tlcoons]

yum remove openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9502.noarch

Then retry the openoffice 3.3 install.

It worked fine. Thanks.