On Saturday 10 March 2007 07:47, Dan Lewis wrote: > On Friday March 09 2007 10:17 am, Mike McGinn wrote: > > Hello, > > I just completed installing Open Office 2.1 on my laptop running > > Mandrake (Mandriva) 10.1 with 2.6.8.1-26 kernel with some Toshiba > > laptop extensions enabled. > > When I tried to launch it, the file "/usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.1" > > was looking to exec "/etc/openoffice.org-2.1/program/soffice" which > > did not exist. I found the file > > "/opt/openoffice.org2.1/program/soffice" and edited the script in > > /usr/bin to reflect this. > > All was well after that. > > My concern is that this would be a show stopper for an > > inexperienced user. Please take care to make sure your installation > > program does not put someone less experienced through an unpleasant > > experience. > > > > Thank you for an otherwise fine product, > > I think that your problems may have come from Mandriva. That is > because the OOo version that comes with Mandriva is installed > in /etc/openoffice.org-2.1. It might also install the > file: /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.1. > I use Mandriva, myself (version 2007), and I have used 10.2. The > default installation of Mandriva includes OOo, and it is placed in > the /etc/ folder. I always make sure that OOo is deselected during > the install to avoid this problem. Then I use the RPM command from > the command line (Konsole) to install OOo. > > Dan Hi Dan, You may be on to something. But since I installed 10.1 on this computer I have upgraded OO from the OO site at least three times. This is the first timeI have had any trouble.
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