Re: OpenOffice Install--no "program" directory

Ben M. Thomas wrote:
> After a 20+ hour compile of openoffice ( I had no idea! ), the emerge
> completed successfully, so it seemed. I then ran ooffice ( which should
> run "setup" ) where I received the following message:
> 
> Gnome session manager detected - session management disabled
> running openoffice.org setup...
> /usr/bin/ooffice: /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/setup: No such file
> or directory
> setup failed.. abort

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Strange. I've enclosed a reponse I made to someone else who was having a 
slightly different issue. But you should have a look at the steps for 
setting it up as I've outlined them here. I have found them to give the 
best results. Furthermore, I have heard that there may be some issues 
with the 1.0.1 build, so you might want to have a look at the forums and 
at bugs.gentoo.org to see if there is any real information on that.

Note that where I say "/opt/OpenOffice", I really mean 
"/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1" in your case.

Also, try running the setup process in a minimalist window manager (such 
as Fluxbox), just to rule out any incongruous behaviour in the presence 
of Gnome.

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Ensure you have a Java runtime environment available /and/ properly
configured. I recommend Sun's because as they designed Java, their
runtime can usually be trusted to provide the best balance of
conformance and performance, furthermore they wrote most of the code
that forms a portion of OpenOffice. It's not open-source though. Type
the following at a console (you will need to download the java
distribution from java.sun.com into /usr/portage/distfiles first, and
emerge will tell you so):

	emerge dev-java/sun-jdk
	java-config --list-available-vms

A list will appear showing any potential java environments available
(you can have multiple environments available, and Gentoo's java-config
command allows you to switch between them). You should be able to see
something like "[sun-jdk-1.4.0]". In that case, type

	java-config --set-system-vm=sun-jdk-1.4.0

Now you need to make sure you followed the correct procedure for setting
up OpenOffice. Once emerged, the binaries are in /opt/OpenOffice. But
you need to install a "localised" copy for the user account you will be
running under. Follow these steps:

1) Do *not* run OpenOffice as root. Create a new user account if you
haven't already. Log in as that user.
2) Run /opt/OpenOffice/setup
3) Go through the installation procedure. Note the following: OpenOffice
will install files to a subdirectory in your home directory (which can
be specified). You must choose a "Network" install otherwise you will
duplicate *all* the files in /opt/OpenOffice into your home directory!
You will be asked to select a Java environment as part of the OpenOffice
install. Select whichever one you have available.
4) Create you shortcuts to run OpenOffice in such a fashion that they
point to your localised OpenOffice directory, not the /opt/OpenOffice
directory (e.g. ~/OpenOffice/soffice instead of
/opt/OpenOffice/soffice).

Note that setup only behaves as such when you are *not* logged in as
root. The above procedure should be executed for every user account you
wish to run OpenOffice under.

--kerframil