On Monday 24 January 2005 16:45, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: > I just removed Openoffice 1.1.3 from my system, downloaded the latest > 1.9.etc snapshot and installed it. > > I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a > pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is the right way to > find out about this? Is there a list of all the Alt-F2 names of the > programs installed on my computer? > > Also, is there a way to go to let's say OOImpress directly? 'ooimpress' is > not the right choice... > > A different problem... I did urpmi thunderbird, to find out that that > installed the 0.8 version. Is it normal that urpmi gives software that is > (a little) outdated? > > Greetings, > > Michaël > > (please reply to the list)
Alt+F2 is simply a way of entering a command line instruction without bothering with opening a terminal window. From it you can run any command. Most of the commands you will be interested in are in the folder /usr/bin To start Impress directly use the command 'soffice -impress' (Or 'ooffice -impress') The command 'soffice -h' will list the available options for starting the application. As for thunderbird. urpmi will privide the latest version available on the servers you have defined. MandrakeSoft do not issue updated applications such as thunderbird unless there is a security issue that requires it. If you want to get the latest and greatest versions of applications you must add additional urpmi sources such as Mandrake Club or Charles Edwards' source (http://www.eslrahc.com/) Thunderbird 1.0.4 is on Charles' site. Another site I like is http://norlug.org/?op=rpms derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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