sudo sed -e's/org3-/org-/' -e's/%U//' -i.3 /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*
doesn't seem to work

I followed all the directions, except for skipping the second last one and it doesn't work. I can't find the files anywhere. Help?

OO3 is installed following your instructions. However, the desktop icons aren't showing up even though I've copied back the original ones. I see in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps versions for both OO3 and OO2.4.

Apologies. It appears I may not have rebooted. I've got the icons now. Thanks for the most excellent instructions.

Worked beautifully, as all of your previous instructions have done. I have no experience with Linux and I really appreciate and depend on your instructions.

Thanks!

thanks for the responses so fast, the outputs to the two commands are as follows:
ls /usr/share/applications/openoffice*
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-base.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-calc.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-draw.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-impress.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-math.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-printeradmin.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-writer.desktop

ls /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg
ls: cannot access /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg: No such file or director

Dude, first up (or girl, could be, I guess, but I will go with Macles)
Macles; you are amazing. Everything a complete computer illiterate like me needs.
I have upgraded to Firefox 3 and was making use of your great upgrading to Linux 2,4 guide. It didnt work. Deleted all files from the OpenOffice folder in downloads and tried everything again.Still didnt work.
Than I went and installed Linux 3. Which involved deleting Linux 2.3. Now I dont have both. I tried everything. Above links and commands but I cannot open any document with the writer and there is no icons in desktop concerning Linux 3. All Linux 3 files (took 1,5 hours to download with WIFI connection ;( are in 'files' desktop and I have extracted them and rebooted many times, no luck.
HELP!
What to do?
How can I reinstall Linux 2.4? Or 2.3 or 3.0 without recovery CD?
Greets

Looks like everyone and their mother are downloading this. My download keeps getting dropped around 15%. I'll have to try again later.

You rock. Big time! :) I couldn't even get my hands on the fresh OOorg3 for the office Windows PC yet, and you already have the instructions for the AA1 ready...

Thanks a lot for your effort in keeping this great little device fun to use!

I ran into a snag. The program installed and ran fine, but the icons didn't get copied. So I have no icons. They are in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps folder, but wont show on the desktop.

If the icons don't appear, follow Macles' advice to run:

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Fixed it for me!

Bingo! That did it. Thanks!

Hi!
Thanks for this and all other posts!
My problem - followed all your instructions, plus those you posted in replies above, but I'm missing the correct icons for Writer and Impress.
My /usr/share/applications folder shows two entries for each of these, neither has the correct icon. Other OOo apps are there with correct icons.
My /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg folder also has two entries for Writer and Impress - one with the correct icon, one without.
Reading through your previous post on updating to OOo 2.4 I notice that the entries for Writer and Impress have the %U entry on Properties.

Any ideas? The 'wrong' icons on my desktop DO open the progs but I would like the 'right' icons.

Sorry this post is so long!

Cheers

Also, I just wanted to add that I am envious and in complete awe of your sed skills.

Macles is a god among AA1 users! I have been waiting for OOo3 for so long and now because of the quick and easy instructions, I can rest soundly.

I did have a few problems with the icons appearing but thanks to reading the comments here, I was able to fix that in less then a second.

Thanks again, Macles!

Me again, the guy with the issue with the second last command..
I've tried all the RPM commands and still no luck with the second last command. Now I have no OpenOffice at all.. is there any way I can try starting this all over or getting the old OpenOffice back?

Hello, thanks for this guide, it has all gone well apart from the fact I don't have any icons, despite trying everything said here to try and resolve the problem.

When I type:

sudo mv openofficeorg* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps

I get the following error message:

mv: cannot stat `openofficeorg*': No such file or directory

Hi Macles,

It all worked fine with me, although the last line (your last reply) was indeed necessary to get the icons back on the screen. Thanks for helping us noobies.

QUESTION: Now that with all your tweaks my AAO is becoming more and more deviant from the rescue DVD, I really need a way to make backups. I tried Grsync and fwbackups, but neither works well for making a backup of the file system. I mount a server disk into a folder and try to backup there, but always something goes wrong with the permissions. Also, since the backup disk is mapped into the file system, the backup tries to make a backup of him(her?)self.

Macles, please teach us to make a proper system backup.
Thanks, michel

> Now that with all your tweaks my AAO is
> becoming more and more deviant from the
> rescue DVD, I really need a way to make
> backups.

No, you just need to stick a regular Linux on. I'm a complete Linux newb but after a few days playing with Linpus I knew I had to bite the bullet and put Ubuntu on. It was trivial to do, and I've never looked back. Then all this stuff just works out of the box, as it would do on any regular x86 box, because the Aspire One IS a regular x86 box.

It's even provoked me into installed Ubuntu on my desktop, dual booting into my Vista install as and when required, although I'll get rid of that once I've got XP running in a virtual machine from within Ubuntu.

Thank you, worked great. Being new to Linux, I was a bit worried about the "audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused" message thrown in my face after pretty much every command, but it worked just fine.

Hi, I have followed your instructions and get the following error:

[root@localhost user]# sudo sed -e's/org3-/org-/' -e's/%U//' -i.1 /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
sed: can't read /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*: No such file or directory

I have no icons after numerous reboots. And appear to have the same problem as another fellow posting above me. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I note on my installation I have the following directory after the installation:
/opt/openoffice.org (dated 30 September 2008)

I don't have /opt/openoffice.org3 at all.

Could this be the problem?

I was having the same issue. Just start over right from the beginning. Mine works now.

Hi, I posted Oct 14, 2008 3:15 PM.
I am still no closer to a solution.
On my previous installs I used mouse right click to paste your commands into Terminal. This time I used ctrl shift V ... still no joy.

Are there any diagnostics I can perform to see where this is not working? Any files I should be finding in certain directories? What a cumbersome thing this Linpus is! Your help is appreciated.

I had the same problem but I got my icons back with the line

sudo mv $HOME/openofficeorg* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps

Read back Macles' instructions and you find this line.

Worked like a charm. Thank you for your help with this.

when I try to extract the files
after
OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/RPMS/ooobasis3.0-binfilter-3.0.0-9358.i586.rpm
I get this error message
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Any advice much appreciated

GK

Having trouble getting my icons to show up. I've gone through everything thats been posted so far but with no luck at all. Im pretty sure the problem is in:

sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*

It returns a list of files that conflict with preexisting openoffice 2.3 files:
file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.sun.xml.math.png from install of openoffice.org3.0-redhat-menus-3.0-9353 conflicts with file from package openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.6fc8

any ideas?

seems there must have been some corruption in my download. Tried several times with fresh downloads, but no luck however with seventh attempt got a "clean" download and installation succeeded. Cheers macles

I found that because the jre package in the unpacked RPMS folder was already installed, it wasn't installing the rest. I got round this by changing the 2nd command after wget from:

sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/*rpm

to:

sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*.rpm

I uninstalled (again) and everything worked this time. Thanks for your help Macles.

Many many thanks Macles. The instructions were perfect and I even learned how to paste in terminal. Thanks for your hard work

on entering command tar -zvxf OOo* starts extracting but get gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Any ideas why?

linux noob

Thanks Macles!! I followed your tutorial and now I have Openoffice Es in my one. But I erased the default icons accidnetaly before backing up, and now I have the low res that Openoffice gives you. Is there a way to get back the default icons???, or even better, set your own icons with png files??? Please help, those low res icons doesn't look good at all.

on entering command tar -zvxf OOo* starts extracting but get gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Any ideas why?

Above resolved by downloading via open Office site rather than Macles link

also had to use alternative to sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/*rpm ---- sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*.rpm

provided Oct 16th
working fine.

linux noob

Worked a treat thanks Macles. Only minor issue was the file association of my old Ooo documents - for some reason, they were opening in Xarchiver, but this is easily fixed.

I have the inverse problem that many people in here... I do have the icons, but they are like...empty, in other words, I have the icons showing, but I still dont have OOo3... can someone help me? Im still a newbie in the likes of Linux.. I got to used to Windows simplicity... =(

Right, now I have tried what you said, and I have several problems. When restoring the icons, there is no reaction in the terminal, and yes, I have pasted them as one line and without the / or spaces, and so I have no icons. This might be because I misunderstood booting; do you mean a restart of the AA1 or a more advanced booting, and if so, how can I do this? Further, the packages are installed, but my documents are still opened in Xarchiver. How can I change this to OO3? Finally, and this might very well be the main cause of my problems, the command
sudo sed -e's/org3-/org-/' -e's/%U//' -i.1 /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*
does not work; the reply of the terminal is that there are no such file or directory. This would be normal if I had moved it, but I have not. How can I redirect the command to the appropriate folder?

My greatest thanks if you can help me with this problem. Otherwise a great guide I am sure will be of help to very many.

- Vocario

Hi Macles. Thanks for the excellent instructions, which worked flawlessly. I now have OO3 installed but boy is it slow. On an AA1 booting from a SSD, it launches reasonably quickly but it can take over 5 minutes to import some PPT files!!! That compares with 10 seconds for the SoftMaker presentation module. The problem might be related to low disc space on the 8gb SSD or to how it handles embedded EPS based pictures. Either way, it's unacceptably slow for me (slower than 2.2 was anyway and that was also slow at converting PPT files.

Please ignore my above questions, I now managed to fix it. My greatest thanks for enabling me to install this.

- Vocario

Excuse me for the ignorance. When I type sudo yum remove openoffice\* my terminal never finishes the process, staying at

Setting up Remove Process
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00

Has the uninstallation went well? What is the problem? Please do help me, this computer is barely new and ain't mine so i don't want to screw it up so badly. Thanks a lot.

Hi, I also have the problem detailed by another user 'empty icons', i have the old icons still, but no OpenOffice when I click on them. Nothing except the 'loading' circle on the mouse, which disappears after a few seconds. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

THANKS!!! GREAT!!!! it's fantastic!

Just brilliant.

Followed the instructions to install Oo3 (pasted each line into terminal with no errors returned). On reboot Oo3 works fine from the right click menu (Office >), but I have no icons on the desktop.

I have tried all the solutions suggested above but to no avail. I do seem to have the 3 files calc.desktop, impress.desktop and writer.desktop in the root directory (My Disk:///) whose properties show as 'broken link'

Any further suggestions on recovering the icons (I don't have a backup on a memory stick as in one suggestion above) would be most appreciated!

All good here.
Thank you very much for the instructions and also the fantastic blog!
All the best,
Mr Jayson
{:@>

i was able to install openoffice 3.0 following the instructions. however, i will have to go back to the original version 2.3 that came with the aspire as i cannot import a powerpoint file i am using for my presentations using oo3. it was ok under oo2.3

Re my post of Oct 25, 2008 7:26:00 PM, I have now solved the problem!

It seems the icons are on the system but the group-app.xml file which controls the layout of the AA1 custom desktop needed updating to replace the occurences of 'openoffice.org-1.9' with 'openoffice.org3' Having done this the correct icons are now shown and run the appropriate Oo3 application.

As a complete Linux virgin I am rather pleased with myself for working this out!

Hi, I am following the instructions, but when I enter tar -zvxf OOo*, I get the following:

tar: OOo*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Can you help me out?

Hello,

Thanks for all your help so far, for a linux noob like myself! I am having a bit of trouble here though. I managed to uninstall everything, and the file seems to d/load and finish, but then when I try to extract, i get the following message

[user@localhost ~]$ tar -zvxf OOo*
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.1: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.2: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.3: Not found in archive

Any idea what the problem is? Thanks

I found a tweak in my Norwegian installation of OpenOffice 3. As another person I got an error messages about the lines starting with OOo*/ and missing directories.
Maybe that's why I've had to edit
/home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml
by hand.

I pointed all the office3-pointers to
/usr/share/applnk-redhat/Office/
(eg. "/usr/share/applnk-redhat/Office/openoffice.org3-base.desktop")

Thanks to Macles I've got a working OO 3!

Actualle the Skype-installation reset my handy work to pointing oo to version 1.3.
Glad I typed it here, so I could go straight back and paste it back in.
:)

Quick question... will this method install all the elements of OOo 3.0, including draw, base, etc.? I ask because I'd prefer to upgrade to 3.0, but not to add on other elements of OOo besides writer, calc, and impress.

Thanks!

It did for me, teasum: installed all.

Hey, thanks for all your help macles, your the person to see for us linux n00bs!well, I have OO3 installed but I don't have images on the desktop, I have the words 'word processor' 'spreadsheet' and 'presentation' and when I click on them it loads OO3 but how can i get the images back on?

When i put in the

sudo mv $HOME/openofficeorg* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

commands the first one gives me this:

mv: cannot stat `/home/user/openofficeorg*': No such file or directory

and the second one says something like cache file created successfully (I cant remember whether thats the exacct words!)

Can anyone give me a list of the packages I can remove after installing OOo 3.0 to save space? I don't need math, and probably not draw or base (I might play around with base to see if I can use it for some things, however). Correct me if I'm wrong, but the default Linpus Lite setup does not have these elements of OOo installed, does it? Or are they installed, but just hidden from the custom Acer interface?

This is a great blog, with great advice. I have f-spot, vlc, OOo 3.0, and several other tweaks because of this blog, so thanks.

I followed instructions and receive a fatal error when trying to open OO3. Iso can not be loaded by Sfxapplication. Please help thanks.

Thank you so much for these instructions. I'm a Linux n00b, so they're perfect!

I ran into one issue with the wget statement - it seems the location has changed. I went to http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US and found the following URL:

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxintelwjre&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0

...and used it in the wget statement, and it worked. Thanks again.

BTW, the identity verification for LiveJournal required to avoid posting anonymously appears to be broken...?

I apologies for my bad english but i'm french.

thank you very much for your instructions, i'm not good at all in linux, threrefore i've successfully installed oo3 (french version).

open office impress is ok, i can create and save slides but when i try to open the file, a window appears : Xarchiver 0.4.9svn-r and i cannot open the slide show

Can you help me again please ? Thanks a lot.

Hi,

I am afraid i am not going to say something new....at the first installation like others no icons appeared at my desktop. I tried to follow the solutions you gave to others but in vein. I rebooted the machine a dozen times but still nothing. I decided to do the whole thing again from the beginning. I removed the programme and installed again. But now i noticed an error message. When the time comes to uzip it using the ''tar -zvxf OOo*'' command an error message appears saying ''tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors''. Any idea what is all about and how i can fix it? I used only copy/paste when i was following your instructions.

Thanks

thank you very much for your quick response...the problem seemed to be that the files were already unzipped....i managed to resolve this issue just 2" ago....however, although the icons are there now, when i am trying to open, lets say the writer, it starts to load and then a fatal!!! error turns up saying.."the application cannot be started. iso resource could not be loaded by SfxApplication"...and to be honest, i have no idea what it is talking about...it's all like greek to me...and i am greek ;-)

command not found..i googled it and i came across with this post ''I downloaded rc3 and installed it with dpkg -i from the DEBS folder. I did
not use the UPDATE script. The problem mentioned above disappeared and the
installation went without problem. '' The whole post can be found at http://www.nabble.com/Build-of-OpenOffice-3.0-rc3-on-Ubuntu-8.04-td19754404.html But because i dont think there is anybdy more newbie than me in linux, i cant understand what he is talking about.

Thank you very much for your time...i don't know what happened but this time worked like a charm. All the icons are there and and it works perfectly. I think it was the 6th attempt but at least it worth it. Thanks again!

I accidentally erased the custom icons /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/openofficeorg*

Can someone mail them to me at pous@ihg.net?

Thank you,

Rafael

I can run the Openoffice applications fine from the desktop menu, but from the custom menu I get the error:

/home/user/%U does not exist.

Any help?

I'm not sure I'm in the right area for this question but there is so much good info here....
I have openoffice 2.3 on an AA1 and only bought it as I have been using OO3.0 on windows and its very good. AA1 though does not seem to have Base? do I have to upgrade to 2.4 or 3? The 2.4 features implies Base has had some enhancements so where is it in AA1 2.3?

>/home/user/%U does not exist.

I am getting the same error, although I have to admit I am experimenting with Finnish OO3 that initally refused to install without some additional trickery. I can't start any of the OO apps from the desktop.

Incidentally, I can sudo the OO apps either by typing in terminal or by clicking the icons in /usr/share/applications in thunar, and they work fine. However without sudo it all ends in tears.

For instance, Writer will start up and present the "Welcome to" screen, however if I click on e.g. the new document button, Writer will die within seconds. It will autorestart but crashes again in a non-ending loop.

I presume all these problems could have to do with some directory supposedly referred to by %U that either does not exist for the standard (nonroot) user or is nonaccessible. Could I be unto something here?

What is the intended purpose of the parameter %U? How could it possibly fail for the nonroot user? Anyone?

Ahh, my bad... I managed to fix my own mess. I got rid of the '/home/user/%U not exist' popup by simply following the instructions to the letter, including ln -s to v1.9 filenames. Lo and behold, no more errors.

As for the spontaneusly crashing OO apps when started without sudo, I sudo rm'd the .openoffice directory from home and restarted OO as standard user. Profile settings recreated from scratch and no more worries. Life is good.

While reading through this blog, I downloaded Open Office 3 and uninstalled the old version, but I did this without backing up the icon files. Is there any way I can get these back without performing a recovery?

Thanks for all tips and advice!

Leanne

Great job and thank you so much. This got me going in less than 15 minutes. Thanks again and keep up the good work !

Hi,

Am worried as am completely new to Linux and am not too sure what I'm doing and I think I may have just killed OOo :-(

I downloaded the file. Double clicked on it so it extracted it to a separate window, then copied and pasted the lines:

tar -zvxf OOo*
sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/*rpm
sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*

However, I get the following:

error: File not found by glob: OOO*/RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*

I know its probably the most obvious thing, but what am I not doing? I currently don't have any OOo. :-(

Many thanks in advance!!

Adam

Hi!
Great tutorial, Open office 3 installed like a charm.
However, I have issues with the icons (yes, one more ^^). I do have the old, nice and pretty icons, but when I put the mouse over them, they swap and look like the new and ugly icons. After that, ugly icons stay.
I've rebooted twice, used all the tricks you stated in your page.

Here is the output of
ls /usr/share/applications/openoffice*
ls /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg

/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-base.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-calc.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-draw.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-impress.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-math.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-printeradmin.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-writer.desktop

base.desktop draw.desktop math.desktop qstart.desktop
calc.desktop impress.desktop printeradmin.desktop writer.desktop

No idea what's going on here. Open office works fine.

It showed the old icon alright.

The output is as follows :
Icon=openofficeorg-writer

I followed carefully all the steps in your tutorial, without forgetting a single one. I tried again the last steps, but nothing changed.

So, here is the output of those two lines. I don't know if that's what you wanted me to do.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2008-11-15 15:12 /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop -> /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/calc.desktop

< app sequence="1" >/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop< / app>

Oh, yeah, that was it, I did change the icons theme. How can I keep the theme I like and still have the old OO icons ?
BTW, when updating the icon cache, it told me cache was created.

Bluecurve. But I plan on installing a new theme, once I find out how to do that, because none of the actual icons please me.

Ok, will do that as soon as I come back to my AAO. Thanks a lot !

Ok, great ! Thanks a lot. BTW, your blog is really great. Thanks for all the support for us, linux newbies :)

I need help, and i feel really silly asking!!

I too did not create a backup of icons before removing the original open office. I have followed the instructions up to the final two commands, however i get..

mv: cannot stat '/home/user/openofficeorg*': No such file or directory

I presume this is due to me not making a back up.

Could you please advise as to how i get my icons back??

The written links work, i just have no icons.

Hello,
when i paste the command

sudo sed 's/org3-/org-/;s/%U//' -i /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*
i've the same problem than other, to kwon "can't read....."

But when i read all the commentary, i see that is not the same command

sudo sed -e's/org3-/org-/' -e's/%U//' -i.1 /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*

I try this one too, but no result. I try all the commend, again and again, but no change.

Can you help me installing office 3, please?

It took me several tries, but finally it worked out. Thank you, Macles, for this super Blog (I already updated Firefox, which worked immediately)! I love my new Aspire one, but without your help no software updates and this would truly suck! I hope you can keep on doing this. All the best!

Hi,

I'm having the same problem as someone else above.When I input tar -zvxf 00p* the output is:

tar: 00o*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Chile returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I may not have any idea what I'm doing though. Thanks!

Hi staticoverlub,
it may the "p" at the end, th command is
"tar -zvxf OOo*"

Just copy and past the command

haha yes, i'm sorry that was a typo in my post. o doesn't work =(

aha! so I was using zeros instead of big O's. now i feel dumb haha. thanks!

cool worked first time for me. cheers

No xdg directory exists for me under the /opt/openoffice.org3 directory. as a matter of fact the only sdg dir i can find is in /etc/ and i dont think that is the correct one.

therefore the "sudo sed 's/org3-/org-/;s/%U//' -i /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/*" command fails and i see no icons.

why is the XDG folder awol?

Macles you are a linpus linux god! I got OO3 working fine after finding the lost icons. I think most problems come after inputting the command, sudo ln -fs /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/calc.desktop \. The AAO returns a >! The next step is to input the next command right after the > is shown. Then hit enter again!

Macles, could you please help me install the brazillian version of OO? Unfortunately, Openoffice in Brazil had to change its name to BrOffice due to legal issues. The link for the brazillian version download is here:
http://linorg.usp.br/www.broffice.org/stable/3.0.0/
What is necessary to change in your originally posted command lines, so that I can have it installed?
Many thanks in advance,

Hi I just wanna know how much memory does the new open office 3.0 take up? I have the 8GB AAO and I might run out of hard disk memory. Also, does it come with a full US-English thesaurus? The main reason I wanna update my open office is that it only has a German thesaurus. (I have no idea why the retailers released a German version for the Asian market) Thanks very much

I recently received AA1 as a birthday gift. I fell in love except that it did not have easy access to updating OpenOffice and Firefox. Even though this is my first time working with a Linux OS, I followed your instructions (copy and paste) from the site into the terminal. It all worked perfectly.

Thank you for your assistance.

I've seen my question posted above, but I haven't seen an answer yet. This went smoothly for me until the tar command. This is what I get:

tar -zvxf OOo*
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.1: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.2: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

It looks like it downloaded properly, but it refuses to install.

100%[===================================================================>] 155,855,326 548.80K/s ETA 00:00

12:33:35 (555.72 KB/s) - `OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.2' saved [155855326/155855326]

I'd be very grateful for any suggestions. As it is now, I have no OpenOffice at all.

While I'm here though, THANK YOU for such a helpful site. Firefox3 is running happily.

Thank you for all of the info you provide here and for the fast response. Not knowing how to rename the file or change the tar command, I deleted all of the downloads and tried again. It claimed to all install properly, but I'm having problems now with getting the icons back. You suggested to someone else up above that it could be a problem with the RPM command, so I reran that. This is the output that I get.

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*
package openoffice.org3.0-redhat-menus-3.0-9354 is already installed
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo cp -f /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/calc.desktop \
> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop
cp: cannot stat `/opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/calc.desktop': No such file or directory

I copied and pasted both lines of text at the same time. Not sure if that's what I'm supposed to do, but I get the same result if I cut and paste them one line at a time. You suggested to someone up above that they try typing openoffice.org3 -writer in the terminal. I did that and got:

[user@localhost ~]$ openoffice.org3 -writer
/usr/bin/openoffice.org3: line 2: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/openoffice.org3: line 2: exec: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice: cannot execute: No such file or directory

You recommended reinstalling if that happened because it meant that it didn't install the first time. If there's a way to uninstall, I haven't found it yet, but I reinstalled and got he same result. I continue to be grateful for any suggestions.

*sigh* I despair of ever getting Open Office 3 on my computer. I went back to the uninstall step and removed those parts of OO3 that had installed. I then downloaded from the main server three times. All three times, I got the same message at the same place:

tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I went back to the wget in your instructions and have downloaded fifteen times this morning. I've seen at least five different mirrors, including Japan, Brazil, Greece, and Iceland. Every single time, I've gotten "invalid compressed data." They don't always happen at the same place and a few times I've gotten all the way to the read-me before the tar conked out. I don't know what else to try. Could there be problems at several mirror sites? Is the problem with my computer? Everything else works great and I had no problems installing VLC or Firefox. I'm a little reluctant to restore because I'm afraid I'll never get everything else working again, but am not sure I have any other options. I continue to be grateful for any suggestions.

So, you can ignore my last post. After several more tries, I got one that unpacked successfully and installed perfectly. It didn't run, but it did install. One more uninstall, a reboot, and a reinstall and it is now working. Thanks again for the instructions and the help.

I have followed the instructions to the letter but it is not working and now my old 2.4 version is not working. The old package is not uninstalling. This isw what I get, can anyone advise as I am fed up with this operating system!!

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum remove openoffice\*
Setting up Remove Process
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again


Cliff

This is great but I also have the error "/home/user/%u does not exist". I have tried reinstalling but it repeats itself. I can access eg writer via the terminal so it appears to have installed OK except that I can't get to the applicaiton via the icon. Any ideas.

This is my first contact with Linux. I have read the instructions carefully. I have tried to download using both

wget "http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxintel&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0"

and

wget http://openoffice.osuosl.org/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz

numerous times (seems like the file downloads 100% 155,855,326/155,855,326) but I always get the following error after typing the [tar -zvxf OOo*] command:

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I read in another forum that this is a typical message if the file is in fact NOT compressed but the extension is left for some reason. Another forum suggested that the file has become corrupted duringtransfer and that the transfer should be made in binary mode. I really don't understand any of this. PLEASE help.

This seemed to do the trick, THANK YOU!

"The first download was probably broken, and with each consecutive download wget appends a number if the file already exists. So even if you downloaded it again tar still tries to extract the first file. Either rename the files or just append the number to the tar command."

Hi Macles, (sorry for the spell but i'm not native) i already did skype and firefox tks to you, but right now i blew it with this one, i erase (don't have any system backup) the icons for Open Office. Right now it only appears the names of the apps. I want to know if there's some way to get new icons or to download the old ones. Tks greetings.

Sorry Macles

But I have lost the functionality when clicking on the power (Start) button.

This only happened after trying to install OO3 for the 3rd time.

Any ideas please???

Many thanks
Richard

GREAT JOB!!!!!!!
It works everything!!!!
Luca

Not sure if this has been addressed, but my slight problem is I am missing the Writer icon--spreadsheet and presentation are there, but there is a blank spot for the writer. If I go through the menu that is reached by right-clicking on the desktop, I can get to all the OpenOffice programs, so everything is there; I'm just missing the shortcut icon on the main desktop.

I see several posts on here that sort of look like they would help, but I'm not sure which one. Considering the 'adventure' I've had so, far, I am hesitant in experimenting on which one is the correct one to use.

I thank you in advance for any help in this matter.

Sincerely,

Jeff

Keep Getting Errors, i cant install it. now im left with no open office at all. please help. give me a direct download link. and tell me how to put the icons on the desktop because that doesn't work either. what a kerfuffle.

jOE

thanks for this blog, I lost icons, I try to recover them from memory usb recovery with commands to put up more, but I get this error:
tar: /media/USBINSTALL/hdc1._.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/openofficeorg-writer.png: Not found in archive
tar: usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/openofficeorg-calc.png: Not found in archive
tar: usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/openofficeorg-impress.png: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

you can help me?

Hi. Thanks for the instructions. I'm a complete Linux Newbie. When I try to open files from OOo3, some files and folders are missing. I've had a look and it seems that these files are saved on my expansion card. I never had this problem with the old version. I can open them through the Documents folder, but I would rather be able to open them through OOo. Is there any way that I can fix this?

Thanks.

Hi
Hope you can help me. I get a error after "sudo rpm -i 000*/RPMS/o*"
It says: "Error: File not found by glob: 000*/RPMS/o*"
I im new in Linux

Hope someone can help me

Best Troels

This was in my terminal when I insert the first line command after downloading Open Office:
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US: Cannot read: Is a directory
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.1: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

-KNB-

Many thanks for this article. Once OO3 is installed is it ok to delete the residual OOO folder, gz file and wget log from My Disk:///?

dear sir
sorry for my english
after I have dowload the file I don't no where I can extract?
and this was in my terminal:
tar: OOo*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[user@localhost ~]$

hope someone can help me
tx

I had some of the problems above, but eventually by deleting everything (including manually deleting the downloaded OO files) and starting all over again it worked fine.

One residual issue though: I may have installed OO twice(?). When I clicked on an MS Word 2007 .docx file, it initially opened the xml archive. When I right clicked the "open with" context menu, all of the open office programs appeared twice in the list of applications.

Please could you advise how I can check whether I have duplicate installations and how to fix that?

i get this everytime. what can i do to correct it as ive lost my original office.
[user@localhost ~]$ tar -zvxf OOo*
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.1: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.2: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.3: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.4: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.5: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.6: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.7: Not found in archive
tar: OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz.8: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[user@localhost ~]$

Try deleting all of the previous downloaded OO install files in My Disk:/// and following macles' instructions from the start again.

Hi, any chance of a guide on on how to update to 3.0.1, I am getting the message to update but when I try to install?? I am having major problems, too many to list!!

Thanks for posting these instructions. I just have one query.

I had already downloaded OO3 tar from the OO website before I found your instructions.

Can I just ignore the wget and follow the rest of the instructions?

I'd rather know before going ahead and then messing up!

Thanks Groigroy. i deleted all the downloaded versions from my files and started again. loaded perfectly this time. thanks

Hi!

I'm having terrible trouble. I have managed to install Open office but when I open it all the things such as file,edit etc and everything in the drop down boxes is not in English but appears to be just symbols - is it just a corrupt copy - or have I done something wrong? If I type something it does appear in a proper font. I have removed it and reinstalled several times - with the same problem reoccuring. I'm new to all this - I have managed to install vlc and f-spot following the instructions but this has me totally stuck.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Kay

Thanks again for perfect install instructions worked first time as usual

Thanks, 2nd time I followed all the instructions in the correct order it
worked perfectly.Just one question - Can we get the database and math
programs to work from the desktop (don't care about the res of icons)
rather than only from the menu via left click? I'm ok editing
group-app.xml but I need the instructions/path please.
ps. The verification text doesn't show up on my AA1 - any ideas why not?
thanks lots

thank you soo much for this post! Worked perfectly on my acer aspire one!

I am getting double of everything in the options of what programme to open a doxc file with, but hey im not complaining..that much

Thank you for your great advice. It usually works without a hitch, but this time I had a minor problem when I get to this part:


The path to the desktop icons need to be changed and the original icons restored.

sudo cp -f /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/calc.desktop \
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop

It says "CP: Cannot create regular file.... There is no such file or directory."

Although I can survive without the icons (I create shortcut keys anyway) it would be nice to have them.

Advice?

Thank you again, and I look forward to more of your posts.

Francis

can anyone upload the orignial icons... i lost em :(

Hi, don't know if this will help anyone but I have just spent ages trying to "wget" the download using the instructions above. All to no effect. Eventually I went to Open Office website, selected download (for Linux) and noted the download link location they suggest in case the download didn't start automatically (bottom of the page).
I copied and pasted that into the terminal window, then filled in the rest of the missing script as per Macles instructions and voila the download started.
There are some minor differences in the script but that is enough to stop it all working. Maybe everyone else has worked this out but thought I might help someone by mentioning it.

Macles, you are my hero!

First of all, thanks for all the posts!
I'm having problems with this. I tried to do get ooffice3 in portuguese by changing the the comand line according to each version, as you said, but neither the brasilian or the european portuguese version seem to download properly.The english version downloaded properly but i get an error when doing the 3rd step (tar -zvxf OOo*...). Any idea of what i'm doing wrong? Thanks

How do you upgrade to 3.0.1?

WHen I click on the update, it download the 167MB file successfully, it says it needs to close OpenOffice to install it, I click OK, it shuts it down, but then nothing seems to happen.

I reopen OpenOffice and it's still 3.0.0 and it still says that there is an upgrade available.

I re-download it, it says it's already been downloaded, but I'm not sure what to do next.

Advice?

Thanks!

Francis

Totally ignorant of Linux, but followed your instructions and 3.0 installed perfectly with icons. Only cautionary point, if you download the file from the net and there are errors in it, you must delete the first download, because if you download it again, even if it is a good download, the unzip program will keep trying to unzip the first download with the errors and you will getting the same error messages. Thanks for your clear and precise instructions. Thanks, Jim

I do have one question. Am I correct that I should turn off the automatic install of updates, because with the Linux Aspire One you will NOT be able to install Open Office updates through their update system by just clicking 'check for updates', the same as you can't install FireFox 3.0 updates?
Thanks, Jim

One last question to anyone. I just found a hidden folder on My Disk called .openoffice.org2.0 with many sub folders in it. There is also a folder called .openoffice.org which appears to have all the exact same sub folders as the previous listed folder except it appears to be for Open Office 3.0. Can I delete the .openoffice.org2.0 hidden folder safely? Right now it is sitting in my trash folder and all parts of 3.0 seems to be working perfectly. Thanks Jim

For people who still having problems with icons
As for example i had this problem:

sudo cp -f /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg/calc.desktop \
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop

It says "CP: Cannot create regular file.... There is no such file or directory."

and after i couldn't have the icons on the desktop. I succeed to have them back:
open a terminal Alt F2 and select run from terminal
do :
cd /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/
mousepad group-app.xml

look for open
and replace
openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop
openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop
openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop
by:
openoffice.org3-writer.desktop
openoffice.org3-calc.desktop
openoffice.org3-impress.desktop

after a reboot you should have your icons back

All Worked fine. I pasted in the updated link to OO v3.0.1 from the website and then followed your instructions.

Updated version working fine. Thanks once again.

Thank you for your most excellent guidance and instructions, Macles*, AA1 Deity.

The install went uneventfully once an intact download was obtained. It took 4 tries to get installation files that did not give an unpacking error. I have noticed similar unpacking problems downloading update files (eg VLC, Firefox3) from the Acer Linus Support site. I wonder if this is a problem common to the current SSD drives or a problem with how Linux handles large downloads. Seems to be more of a problem with my 16gb SSD than my girlfriends 8gb SSD.

The "check for updates" option is live on this OpenOffice 3 version, unlike with the original OO 2.3 factory installation. Will this be a viable way to update to future releases of version 3.xx, or will the Terminal instructions be have to performed?

now I can use my docx files on this fab little machine. Cheers for excellent help Macles, even for linux beginners!

With respect to update 3.0 (installed according to macles) from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, I seem to have success with just downloading the file that was proposed by OpenOffice as update; it went into ~/Desktop.
Then I had to

cd Desktop/
tar -zvxf OOo*
sudo rpm -iF OOO*/RPMS/o*

and after 10 minutes everything was fine.
Without the 'F' it would display hundreds of 'conflicting files'.

Thanks, again, macles, and keep the good work up!

what is the right comment now?

sudo rpm -iF OOO*/RPMS/o* this?
sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/*rpm this?

or this?

sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*.rpm


nothing working @ my acer aspire one. I wait 20 minuts, nothing is here. it shows

.
.
.
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/licenses/
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/licenses/LICENSE_en-US
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/licenses/LICENSE_en-US.html
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/update
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/readmes/
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/readmes/README_en-US
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_en-US.9379/readmes/README_en-US.html
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/*rpm
... nothing

thank you for your help

Many many thanks Macles. The instructions were perfect.
I was wondering how do you get:

1.Math.

Thank you for your help.

I keep getting error: file cannot be found by glob when putting in your command: sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*

The unzipped Openoffice 3.0 package is in My Downloads

I've removed the old open office, and obviously upacked the zip file

Please help me, i'm losing my mind, i know it's going to be something so simple!!!

doesnt work my open office uninstalled and now i havent got anything!

Hello, please help! I linux newbie. tried to install OO3 desinstalled the 2.3, downloaded with wget, unzipped with tar -zvxf OOo* and now can not continue step 3:
I keep getting error: file cannot be found by glob when putting in your command: sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*
Please help!
Rui

hallo

I has the same problem as the other...
I keep getting error: file cannot be found by glob when putting in your command: sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*

can someone tell me why it is going wrong???

Hi! Great blog btw.

I managed to solve my icons issue. I have read all the comments and tried most by nothing seems to work. Here is how I solved mine.

cd /
cd usr/share/applications
sudo mousepad openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop

This should open your text editor. Look for the line where it says

Icon=openofficeorgcalc
And change it to:
Icon=openofficeorg-calc

You will need to do the same process for

sudo mousepad openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop
sudo mousepad openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop

Then reboot and your icons should be there; assuming you have followed all of Macles' instructions.

I don't why my .desktop files were not indicating the proper icon file name.

Anyway, I hope it helps.

didn't work, and like the guy above (richard) my icons have gone and the power button icon bottom right of desktop no longer works...

1. Everything is working for me.
2. I have the same problem on installing the thingy after downloading it, but I manually install all the RPMs. Double-click one by one. (Yup, stupid...but it works for me)
3. Later, I manually unpacked the desktop integration for redhat.
4. Macles is definitely The One for AA0 users!
5. Thanksalot Macles!
6. If you don't mind, please include Google Chrome installation process when the Linux version is ready.

Thank you for the instructions! OOo3 installation went fine but after that I lost network and the wireless led doesn't turn on anymore, no matter how much I play with the switch or I reboot. LAN is working OK! Any clue there? I followed the instructions with no problems or errors. Any help is appreciated.

Update on earlier post [Feb 28, 2009 12:11:00 AM]

WiFi problem solved.

After a night's rest WiFi was up and running this morning. Don't know exactly what happened in the first place and probably was unrelated to OOo3 installation.

Just a little suggestion from my part. Download speeds from most sites are disappointing so download your installation files before beginning the procedure.

Hi,

Just wanted to thank you for this post. I am completly dumb in Linux and thx to you, I could install OOo3 by blindly following your instructions. Thhhhhhhxxx !!!

Clement

thank you for making linux beginner friendly!!! worked -once again- like a charm.. thank you, thank you, thank you!!

No problems at all. Installation was easy and straight forward. OOO is working like a champ. Thank you very much

Many thanks- my fingers were trembling doing the update but I followed the instructions exactly and it worked fine. Keep up the good work!

if i click the setup file, it says: error: java runtime environment not found in folder

if i install all the rpm's it says error resolving dependencies

could somebody please tell me what that means?

Thanks a lot

Milton

Hi Milton,

If you are going to install all the rpm's, it's important to do it in the right order. Look at "Details". It will lead you to the right order of the files to be opened.

I have just followed the instructions succesfully. unfortunately the calendarfunction and contacts in the desktop is now missing. Is here a way to fix this problem (and I am a very new aspire and linux-user)

Hi macles, I have downloaded the updated version of openoffice 3.1.
Could you please describe the steps of upgrating??
Thanks...

hi there

thanks for the guide you sr truly a master my only thing is I think i have deleted the icons along with the uninstall and when i have installed the new version i only have the words i.e word processor ,presentation etc etc no icons is their any way to any icons at all for this progrmas ? thanks again

LL

didn't work for me :
sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*
sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*
but :
sudo rpm -i RPMS/o*.rpm
sudo rpm -i RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*
does work, probably because the first / before RPMS redirects the packagemanager to search for files under the root directory which is /

Excellent website!

My boyfriend was so kind to buy me a Acer One with Linux for my birtday. Since he is a complete computer illiterate it is up to me to find out how things work with this beautiful lille thing called Acer One.

Right now I have installed Open Office 3.0, removed the 2.3 edition that was pre-installed. I have even copied my icons, and brought them back.

The problem is that I can't get them to work. I double click on the Open Office icons, and the system works for a while, then nothing.

I have rebooted twice, but I can't get the icons to work. However, I can start Open Office writer from the command line.

When i use: ls /user/share/applications/openoffice.org I get:
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop
/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop

if I do ls /opt/openoffice.org3/share/xdg I get:
base.desktop draw.desktop math.desktop qstart.desktop calc.desktop impress.desktop printeradmin.desktop writer.desktop

If I do cd /opt and ls -l I get:
openoffice.org
openoffice.org3
Adobe

Any ideas on how to get my icons to work?

Thanks in advance.


Lill-E

Hi,

after following all the instructions for Openoffice3, this is what I get clicking on the icons, or launching from terminal:

The application cannot be started.
iso resource could not be loaded by SfxApplication

Please...help!

Macles, I have messed up, grr. Completely new to linux, I tried everything you said, but along the way I tried to change from English to Dutch. Now I have a directory with no rights to anyone AND I get an error trying to get the EN-us version over that installation again. This is the reply:
file /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc conflicts between attempted installs of openoffice.org3-3.0.1-9379 and openoffice.org3-3.0.1-9379

One more thing: during one of those attempts I must have thrown away the original hi res icons. I have not been able to trace them anywhere on the web. Any help there too ?

Most other suggestions from your blog worked terrific for me, thanks for the effort.

Macles, please ignore the first part of my earlier post. I found that when I chmod the directories I was able to finally delete the unwanted material. After that I was able to install 3.o in Dutch. Only remaining problem I know have: no icons at all.

Thanks Macles.
Everything worked pretty much as you described.
Two things
(1) Not trusting the big 150M download to go down smoothly I first did the wget download BEFORE removing the old OpenOffice
(2) I also had problems with the icons even after re-booting (they launched opening in text editor instead of executing the link). Rather than trying to sort this out, I just used the file manager to go to /usr/share/applications/ and dragged the OpenOffice icons onto my desktop. Seems to work fine. Right-click them to edit/shorten their description.
In fact I was so impressed by all my linux explorations going so smoothly since I bought my aspire yesterday that I promptly also installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my main laptop (dual-boot tho :)

Hi! I have this problem after use the tar -zvxf OOo*

OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_es.9379/readmes/
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_es.9379/readmes/README_es.html
OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_es.9379/readmes/README_es
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Can u help me?

worked without a single hitch...straight from the base install (whatever that was) to 3.0. I've never used Linux before - this guide was a breath of fresh air for a n00b like me. many thanks

mine says
*program can not be started
language could not be determined*

help please