upgrading OpenOffice from 2.4 to OOo 3

**rockerphil** · October 3rd, 2009

ok, the title pretty well explains it, but here's some quick info about my system first. i'm running an old Dell Dimensin L500cx with 512 MB of PC100 SDRAM, and a 500 MHz Intel Celeron processor. the OS is a custom DE built from a CLI install using Fluxbox as the WM, rox-filer as the file manager, feh and idesk for icon rendering and an assortment of other lightweight apps to round off the OS. now, down to the matter at hand. i'm trying to upgrade OOo from 2.4 to OOo 3. i began by completely removing the version of OOo i already had and then downloaded the archive for my system from OpenOffice.org, extracted the files and installed all the debs using dpkg but nothing is showing up in the Fluxbox menus, i'm not finding anything in the /usr/bin directory concering OpenOffice and when i try to launch oowriter from the terminal it says it's not installed and to use apt-get to install it. any suggestions guys? any help is appreciated and thanks in advance,

Phil

**louieb** · October 3rd, 2009

Maybe its in the /opt directory. Did you look there?

also try

Code:

sudo updatedb
locate ooffice

**anonymous_user** · October 3rd, 2009

Fluxbox's menu does not automatically show new programs, you have to edit it and add the programs you want.

**rockerphil** · October 4th, 2009

Originally Posted by anonymous_user

Fluxbox's menu does not automatically show new programs, you have to edit it and add the programs you want.

it use to be that way, but the newer versions of fluxbox has aut-updating menus, but none the less i've solved the problem. it installed, just as a different command, running

Code:

openoffice.org3

from a terminal launches a nifty little screen that asks me which OOo program i want to launch, i.e. Base, Writer, Math, Calc, Impress and the like. i've thus added the entry to my ~/.fluxbox/menu file. but oh well, thanks for the assistance guys, marking this thread as solved

Phil