On 02/25/2009 08:16 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 20:08 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> >> I'm not suggesting that you install on the school's computers (although >> it would be a very good idea to do so), I'm suggesting that you do this >> on your computer. That way you'll be able to reasonably work with sound >> and video in OOo from your system without the mess/limitations of Sun's >> very rudimentary JMF. Again, if you advise what linux version you are >> using, then perhaps you may already have an OOo distro version with >> gstreamer support already installed. > > > I have Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) which came with OOo 2.4 Did you have issues with (U)OOo 2.4.1? That included sound and video via gstreamer out of the box and is actually a go-oo build. > > I also have basic or "normal": OO 3.0.1 installed from the OO site. > > I had locked the version of OO in Synaptic so it didn't overwrite the > 3.0 that was installed. ?? The standard OOo 3.0.1 installs into the /opt directory. You can safely leave it there and there is no need to 'lock' it via Synaptic. > > Now I've tried to install the version from Ubuntu which the go-oo site > says is the right one, but it hasn't updated the gnome menu and I can't > find a symbolic link to start it manually. It won't. And in this case if you tried the instruction for Ubunt on the http://go-oo.org/download/ page it will just have you install/reinstall via your Ubuntu repository. > > Do you know what the command is? openoffice, oooffice and soofice don't > work Yes: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice This is why I asked you which version of linux you were running. If you'd like to *keep* (U) 2.4.1 (highly recommended) and still try the go-oo build of OOo for 3.0.1 you can instead install the OxygenOffice version. It will reinstall over the /opt/ files and works just fine. In addition you get about 150MB of additional templates, etc. Afterwards, you just use your old Applications|Office|menus that you had for your other 'standard' OOo 3.0.1. If you've messed those up, then just create a new one with the path as above. On the otherhand, if you want to actually overwrite your (U)OOo 2.4.1 and install a developer version of (U)3.0.1 then write back & I'll tell you how... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
