Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 02/09/2013 05:16 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
> > Jay Lozier wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > I confirm the CLI libreoffice gives the error missing 
> > > libreoffice-common run sudo apt-get libreoffice-common.
> > >
> > > This was using LO 4.0 (direct download) and Mint 13 Maya. All the 
> > > features have beens installed including help-pack and SDK
> > >
> > > LO 4.0 does run when menu or file is clicked.
> > >
> > > What is the CLI entry to run LO 4.0 in Linux I think is the question.
> > Jay,
> > Have you tried "soffice" or unambiguously: 
> > "/opt/libreoffice<version>/program/soffice"?
> > soffice is a legacy name from the StarOffice days.  Some day, it will 
> > be changed, but I am not sure 4.x is it yet.  I have not installed 
> > 4.x yet, so I am not sure of that.
> > Note that "soffice" is a script which does a lot of setup.  It 
> > eventually invokes "soffice.bin", which should not be invoked 
> > directly from the command line.
> > Hope this helps.
> > Girvin Herr
> I did try soffice but not the full path. soffice did not work and when 
> I tried "/opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice it worked.
Jay,
That means you need to add the "/opt/libreoffice4.0/program" path to 
your $PATH environment variable.  Dan has already mentioned that in this 
thread.  You can try "export PATH=/opt/libreoffice4.0/program:$PATH" to 
add it until you log out.  However, to permanently add it when you log 
in, you will need to add the statement to your ".bash_profile" script in 
your home directory.  This is, of course, if you are using the bash 
shell.  If you are using another shell, then it will be slightly different.
Another trick I do so I don't have to keep changing these each time I 
update, is to create a "/opt/bin" directory and then create a symlink in 
that directory which points to the soffice script.  That way all I need 
to change is what the symlink points to when I install a new LO version, 
leaving "/opt/bin" unchanged in the $PATH variable.  Another advantage 
to this is that you can have several different symlinks in /opt/bin 
pointing to different versions of LO or other programs, without changing 
$PATH.
Girvin


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