Help With Open Office 1.1
LEONIDAS JEGOROVAS
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Feb 3 08:29:01 2004
HI,
With your help at last have installed OO 1.1 .Thanks once more.
with respect
best regards
Mr. Leonidas Jegorovas
----- Original Message -----
From: "mascarasnake" <dontdrill@earthlink.net>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Help With Open Office 1.1
> If you downloaded OO 1.1 from the YDL site (other distros I don't know),
> I believe the executable for OO is "soffice" and should be
> in your "/usr/bin/ " directory if you did a net-install. If not, just
> run "which soffice" from the command line and it should tell you where
> it is.
>
> If you want to get rid of your old version, then run "yum remove
> openoffice" and that will get rid of the version that YDL installed.
>
> G'luck
>
>
> LEONIDAS JEGOROVAS wrote:
>
> > HI,
> > I've just installed OO 1.1. on my PPC:IMAC/NEW WORLD/ 500MHZ; 20GB;
> > 384MB; 24XCDR/W; YDL 3.01; KERNEL 2.6.1. with a 'no Java' option, but
> > because during installation got message that I already have installed
> > previous version of Open Office 1.0 I was suggested to install
> > newer version of Open Office 1.1. to different directory /opt what
> > I did and successfully finish installation, but when now I trying to
> > run any Open Office application from the panel starts only previous
> > version Open Office 1.0 applications.Tried to run Open Office
> > 1.1.application from that newly created directory /opt but couldn't
> > find any executable files. Tried to remove previous version Open
> > Office 1.0 but still same. Tried to find answer at Open Office web
> > site, unfortunately with no luck. Please help with advice, really
> > would appreciate that.
> > with respect
> > Mr. Leonidas Jegorovas
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > *From:* Greg Hamilton <mailto:gregh@object-craft.com.au>
> > *To:* yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > <mailto:yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:34 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: Help With Open Office 1.1
> >
> > I've just installed OO 1.1. I noticed a long delay after clicking
> > OK (or Next or whatever it was) on the JRE selection page but it
> > proceeded eventually and everything seems to be working. I
> > specified Blackdown Java because that's the only runtime the
> > installer detected, though I do have the IBM runtime and sdk
> > installed too.
> >
> > Apparently Java isn't used for much in the latest OO and you can
> > run without it. On the JRE selection page there is a 'no Java'
> > option. That might be worth a try.
> >
> > On 31/01/2004, at 12:34 PM, Michael and Marilyn Cherry wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to install OpenOffice 1.1.
> >
> > I downloaded it from the YDL site, and I am able to expand the
> > file to create the installation directory.
> >
> > I have installed the IBM JRE that comes with YDL.
> >
> > When I run the ./setup, I get as far as the confirmation that
> > JRE is installed and I cannot seem to get past this point.
> >
> > Can anyone help me. Am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
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