problems with openoffice install on Suse10

[jwf]

Hi.
I'm just recovering from a hard drive error where I've installed Suse V10.0 (SUSESLICK).
I've downloaded OpenOfficeOrg (rpm in zipped format) from the OpenOffice.org site.
I unpacked and RPM'ed the application, but did not see an icon where I could start it.
There was a new directory that contained several new RPM's, one of which was called " openoffice.org-suse-menus-2.1-5.noarch.rpm " It installed that too, but received a soft error (one you could bypass). If i try to reinstall that rpm, it says it is already installed.
I still do not see any way of starting OpenOffice.

Anyone with any ideas?

Thanks

[bryansmith]

Since I'm not using Linux right now and since I've never used those rpm's, bear with me .

My guess is that OOo got installed into /opt. Check there for a OOo folder and if you see one, trace your way through for a bin folder. I know OOo Writer is called swriter but as for the others, I have no idea.

Also, I know in Gnome you have to "refresh" the panel sometime to have the icons show up. Try the following if you are using Gnome:

killall -9 gnome-panel

I know Slick doesn't use Gnome but just in case you installed it afterwards.

[jwf]

Hi Brian,
I looked in the /opt directory and there was an /openoffice directory with a sub directory of "/program" and SWRITER was present. It Started OK.

Thanks again for your quick reply.

[bryansmith]

No problem. Glad I could help.

Assuming you haven't done so yet, you could always add menu entries using the menu editor. Just a helpful hint

[daark.child]

To reinstall the menus rpm, do something like

#rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force openoffice.org-suse-menus-2.1-5.noarch.rpm

Post back if you get any error messages. The last time I used those rpms on Suse 10.x, I didn't have any problems getting the menu entries.