On 8/22/07, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
first I did alien -r *.rpm and then the first -i command along with --script. this time no errors and no warnings.
so far so good.
but surprise! I don't have any thing in my applications/ office menu except evolution.
oops. this is nothing very startling. Its just that the desktop shortcuts and perhaps some gnome integration isn't there. Don't worry too much.
I tried finding hard and eventually got /opt/openoffice2.2.1 and in the programs sub directory I found swriter, scalc etc.
Its easy to create a shortcut for any program by creating a app-name.desktop in /usr/share/applications. Refer existing ones for help.
I can run them all right but now I can't create a shortcut in the office menu nor on the desktop.
The app-name.desktop will appear in your gnome menu.
If you are the gui guy then System > Preferences > Main Menu should allow you to add the missing entries, assuming you are using gnome.
All said and done try using the openoffice-gnome package which contains all the necessary files.
regards, C