Re: [orca-list] looking for the executable for open office writer.

["Darragh Ó Héiligh" <lists digitaldarragh com>]

Aha.  it's fine.  Soffice.bin was the name of the executable and I
have the writer up and running.

Is there a faster way of adding these to the office menu than adding
them manually after an installation from openoffice.org?  Thanks.

On 03/09/07, Darragh Ó Héiligh <lists digitaldarragh com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry. I'm sure this is a really basic question but I need a pointer
> because I'm not even sure if the application has installed correctly.
>
> To pass some time early on Saturday morning when I really should have
> been a lot more producctive, I decided to install the latest version
> of open office from openoffice.org onto Ubuntu 7.4.
>
> It gave out about conflicts with the previous version but after
> uninstalling the suite, it installed happily.
>
> However, as I kind of expected,  the open office apps are not located
> in the office menu in Gnome.
>
> Open office is also not shown as installed in the gnome-app-install
> application however I kind of expect this as I assume this is just
> reporting on the applications available in the installed repositories.
>
> I'm not at that machine right now but from what I remember, dpkg -l
> openoffice shows that it is installed.
>
> Any suggestions as to where I could check for the open office writer
> application for example?
>
> What is that executable called?
>
> Thanks
>
> And I'm sorry I'm still screwing up my system.
>
>
> Darragh