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Hello
I found a tutorial for upgrading to version 2.3 on this website but I wanted to know if there was one for updating to version 3, and if there are significant differences with the tutorial for v 2.3
I'm a complete noob with Linux and I'm a little worried I might mess everything up, but I need OO3's ability to open docx format, among other things.
My computer is a stock Linux 4G eee
thanks
d
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It's fairly simple, honestly - I managed 
see how I did it here (post # 16):
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php? … 33#p414833
Last edited by kgha (2008-11-24 5:50:28 am)
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kgha, with your additional steps, the installation worked very smoothly for me (on a 901)... perhaps it's worth adding to the wiki?
OOo3 looks very good too, and well worth the update.
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I just ran Synaptic, checking for new packages, and noted that OO3.0.0-9 shows up there. Might make installation a piece of cake (but haven't tried).
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Thanks a lot. I've Dled the file and tried the very first command you recommend but I get a message saying that the archive is inaccessible. Yet it's there in my home/user folder. Where should I put it?
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OK, you´ve got the OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz file in your /home/user/ library, right?
Open a terminal window (ctrl+alt+t). You should see
/home/user/> and a cursor.
If not, type cd /home/user/ and you should get to the proper library.
Then type
tar -xvf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
A new library should be created in /home/user/ probably named OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358 or something like that. So cd into that one by typing
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358
and (as per the wiki guide) further into the library named DEBS:
cd DEBS
Now try:
sudo dpkg -i ooobasis*
and so on...
Thing is you have to first get into the proper library.
It's possible that you can speed this up by (from /home/user/ ) typing
sudo dpkg -i OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/ooobasis*
(et cetera)
But I haven't tried that one, being a newbie I find it safer to follow the wiki instructions 
Hope you'll sort it out!
Last edited by kgha (2008-11-24 10:28:35 am)
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OK I've gone through the procedure and got several error messages during the instal. I haven't yet been able to start the app, will get back here when I have (or haven't). Thanks for your help, guys.
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OK errr...back wirth more silly questions. I can't make heads or tails of this. think OO was installed correctly, if I understand well what appears in Synaptic, however I don't understand even how to start it from the console, before I go to the trouble of creating symlinks (and that's another hill to climb).
What should I type in the console, and inside what folder?
Sorry to be such a noob, but I'm, well, a noob 
Last edited by dacaumodo (2008-11-25 3:57:49 am)
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If yo haven't created the symlinks it should start if you type the following in the terminal window and hit enter:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
Or if you want to go inteo word editing directly:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/swriter
Since you state the full path it shouldn't matter "where you are"
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Thanx a bunch for this thread! Following the instructions here, I've upgraded to OOo v3 quite nice and easily! Yay
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Well thanks a lot, I managed to instal it and it does start!
Now I need to put the symlinks somewhere so i can start the app easily. I hope it won't be too hard.
Thanks again for your kind help,
d
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Glad to hear that my makeshift instructions worked for others too
There are probably more elegant solutions, and now when oo3 shows up in Synaptic there's another option to try.
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Hello again.
I tried to follow the instructions for creating the symlinks for OO3, but the lines I get in simpleui.rc do no match what's in the wiki:
it should be :
<parcel simplecat=“Work” shortcut=“ooo-writer.desktop”
what I have is:
<parcel shortcut="ooo-writer.desktop" simplecat="Work" selected_icon="documents_hi.png" icon="documents_norm.png" >
What should I do? And, by the way, what is "advanced mode" and how do i access it (do i need to)?
thanks
d
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Hmmm, the phrases 'simplecat="Work"' and 'shortcut="ooo-writer.desktop" seem to have changed place in your file but apparently the order doesn't matter (if the icon worked before your update).
I would try to replace
shortcut="ooo-writer.desktop" simplecat="Work"
(but nothing more than that, leave the following bits starting with selected_icon as they are!!)
with
simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter"
(as the wiki suggests)
Save and see what happens.
"Advanced mode" gives you a desktop resembling Windows. There are instructions in the wiki section:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/#full_desktop_advanced_mode
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Hello
So I tried this but it didn't work, I simply no longer had an icon for starting writer. Any other idea?
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Oh dear.
I'm at loss here since I don't really grasp the principle (syntax etc.) behind Linux files such as simpleui.rc.
But here's the entry in my file, and it works, try a copy+paste and see what happens.
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter".
icon="oowriter_norm.png"
selected_icon="oowriter_hi.png">
Don't miss any dots, slashes, or other stuff. After that part the "name" follows (in different languages) but I cannot see any reason to edit anything of that section.
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kgha wrote:
Oh dear.
I'm at loss here since I don't really grasp the principle (syntax etc.) behind Linux files such as simpleui.rc.
But here's the entry in my file, and it works, try a copy+paste and see what happens.
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter".
icon="oowriter_norm.png"
selected_icon="oowriter_hi.png">
Don't miss any dots, slashes, or other stuff. After that part the "name" follows (in different languages) but I cannot see any reason to edit anything of that section.
Thanks a lot for your patience. I just have a doubt: do I need to download additional icons for this to work? Or do the icons come standard with the OO3 download?
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dacaumodo wrote:
...do I need to download additional icons for this to work? Or do the icons come standard with the OO3 download?
You don't have to get new icons The old one ("pencil and paper") should still be on your desktop (or rather in the library /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/ ). And by replacing the command: shortcut="oowriter.desktop" with: extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter" the old icon should be linked to OO3.
If you want to get "proper" OOo icons you can find them here:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/list:alternative_icons
and instructions how to put them on the desktop:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:customize … _easy_mode
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OOOPS I made a fatal error!!!!
OK this is my working entry in the simpleui.rc file:
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter".
icon="oowriter_norm.png"
selected_icon="oowriter_hi.png">
BUT:
the icon referred to is not the original document icon, it's an alternative OO icon I've installed afterwards.
So this is what the entry should look like if you ant to use the original "Pencil and paper" icon:
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter".
icon="documents_norm.png"
selected_icon="documents_hi.png">
And for spreadsheets:
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/scalc".
icon="spreadsheet_norm.png"
selected_icon="spreadsheet_hi.png">
Sorry for confusion caused 
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Oh, that's why my whole screen went black then
I fixed i though. For spreadsheets, is there any particular place in the file I should paste this code?
Thanks,
d
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dacaumodo wrote:
Oh, that's why my whole screen went black then
I fixed i though. For spreadsheets, is there any particular place in the file I should paste this code?
Thanks,
d
There should be a part of the simpleui.rc file that originally looked like:
<parcel simplecat="Work" shortcut="ooo-calc.desktop".
icon="spreadsheet_norm.png"
selected_icon="spreadsheet_hi.png">
(in your case maybe with entries in reverse order) which should be edited to:
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/scalc".
icon="spreadsheet_norm.png"
selected_icon="spreadsheet_hi.png">
And the same goes for "impress" (the powerpoint equivalent). Original entry:
<parcel simplecat="Work" shortcut="ooo-impress.desktop".
Edit to:
<parcel simplecat="Work" extraargs="/usr/bin/simpress".
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I'm not having much luck, I must be doing something wrong because each time, either the icon disappears from the relevant screen, or my whole screen (except for the status bar at the very bottom) goes black - fortunately this does not prevent me from reverting to the old simpleui because i backed it up on a usb stick, and consoles do open.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I don't think I deleted or overwrote anything i shouldn't in the simpleui.rc file but perhaps i did unawares.
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Another attempt, another failure. Can't figure it out for the life of me. This time around, once again, the result was that the icon disappeared from the relevant menu. Here's what the relevant line looked like after editing:
<parcel extraargs="/usr/bin/swriter" simplecat="Work" selected_icon="documents_hi.png" icon="documents_norm.png" >
before editing it looks like this:
<parcel shortcut="ooo-writer.desktop" simplecat="Work" selected_icon="documents_hi.png" icon="documents_norm.png" >
Could it be a wrong reference in the shortcut? When i start OO3 from the console, here's the line that does it:
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/swriter
d
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A good thing that you saved a backup copy. It's easy to miss a dot or a " or something that looks innocent but might be important.
I suggest that you reinstall your original simpleui.rc file and re-edit it as "light" as possible. Since you've created the symlinks in the library /usr/bin/ (I understand that OO3 starts when you type swriter in a terminal window, which is a sign that the symlinks work) it should be sufficient just to replace
shortcut="ooo.writer.desktop"
with
extraargs="usr/bin/swriter"
NO other changes, no extra spaces or dots or anything.
Then do the same with calc and impress.
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Actually I don't recall creating a symlink as I thought this process I'm trying to do was the creation of the symlink But if you say that it starting from the console proves that the symlink is there...
Well I guess I'll give it another go and if it doesn't work I'll use the console and that's that.
Anyway thanks for your patience!
d
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