[techtalk] StarOffice:It rings me

[Nicole Zimmerman]

Hi Anton,

Try adding the path to the StarOfice binary into your own path or the
global path for your system.

For bash, this would be in your .bash_profile or globally /etc/profile
For csh, this would be your .cshrc or globally /etc/csh.cshrc 

These might differ by system (the global locations).

You would have a line (and you probably already have one) that says (in
the case of bash):

PATH="$PATH:/u01/staroffice52/program"

and make sure at the bottom there is an 
export PATH

If you are just running a console, to re-"source" the login file, you
could do a 'source /etc/profile' or for bash just '. /etc/profile' (or
whatever file you changed). If you are running X, be sure to exit X, log
out of the console you're running X on and relog in again, otherwise
you'll have to source the file every time you open a new terminal window.

>From then on, you can just type 'soffice' and it will (should) work. You
could do this for your gnome shortcut too. :o) You could also (I assume)
put the whole path to the program in your shortcut.

I had to make these changes when I installed staroffice too. It works for
me :o)

-nicole

At 11:40 on Oct 11, antonxie combined all the right letters to say:

> Well techtalkers...
> 
> I've installed Staroffice 5.2 too on a separate partition u01.
> I'm complete newbee...not bumblebee nor gonnabe...
> I have it installed on /u01/staroffice52/
> To run the program, I have to type ./soffice in /u01/staroffice52/program/
> directory
> My guestions:
> 1. How does the command  "./soffice" differ from other, say "soffice", coz
> simply type soffice would run the program.  I don't know about this stuff...
> 2. How do I create a launcher on gnome desktop then, since the command line
> start with a dot (.)
> 
> Please help me out...
> 
> TTFN
> 
> anton xie