Smith, Herb wrote:
Hi All, Sorry if I'm still a bit confused about the options on this. I downloaded the rpm's from OOo and did an rpm -Uvh openoffice*.rpm and it seemed to go well until I tried to run it. It gave me a message about not finding an acceptable windowing environment or something. I noticed that it installed in /opt/openoffice whereas the FC5 package was is /usr/lib. At this point the FC5 package would no longer start from the task bar. It would start from the command line, but seemed to have lost it's file import filters. If one wanted to install the latest from OOo, what's the correct process to make it work properly? Is there a way to control where it installs? Do I want to control that, or not? I haven't had a lot of experience with rpm. Thanks in advance. Herb
I saw this after I replied the first time. Read this setup guide as it explains the whole installation process. Including the install directory.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf -- Robin Laing
