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This gives you some hints on OpenOffice, please notify me if you want to change something in the wiki (tpowa - package maintainer). The packages are not source compiled packages; only OO.org's binaries are packaged for pacman.

Contents 1 OpenOffice 2 Setup 1.1 Instalace 1.2 Setup 1.3 Running 1.4 Known Problems 2 OpenOffice 1.1.4 Setup 2.1 Installation 2.2 Addons 2.3 Setup

[edit] OpenOffice 2 Setup

[edit] Instalace

• Nejprve nainstalujme Java Runtime Environment (nevyžadováno, ale doporučeno):

# pacman -S j2re

• Nainsalujeme základ balíku:

# pacman -S openoffice-base

• Doplníme si češtinu z repozitáře Community:

# pacman -S openoffice-cs

• Pro kontrolu pravopisu musíme sáhnout do AURu pro balík openoffice-spell-cs. Stejně tak je v AURu k dispozici i slovenská lokalizace i kontrola pravopisu: balíky openoffice-sk a openoffice-spell-sk.
• Další jazykové balíčky jsou k dispozici dílem v repozitáři Community, dílem v AURu.

[edit] Setup

Run '/opt/openoffice/program/soffice' to setup OpenOffice2 for a regular user on first startup and to start OpenOffice2.

OpenOffice2 introduces the ability to use several toolkits for drawing and integrate into different desktop environments in a clean way. To choose by hand, you need to set the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP environment variable, either system-wise (like in /etc/profile.d/) or in the specific shell OpenOffice is running in.

To run OpenOffice in GTK2 mode, you can issue (using bash):

 # OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome soffice

Perhaps you would like to put it in /usr/bin/soffice:

 export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

or put it into ~/.bashrc

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

[edit] Running

If you want to run a specific module of OpenOffice (Instead of the soffice default), for example, the word processor (Write), spreadsheet (Calc) or presentation (Impress), check for the following script frontends:

Writer

 /opt/openoffice/program/swriter

Calc

 /opt/openoffice/program/scalc

Impress

 /opt/openoffice/program/simpress

Math (Formula Editor)

 /opt/openoffice/program/smath

Base (Database frontend)

 /opt/openoffice/program/sbase

Printer Administration (Recommended to run as root)

 /opt/openoffice/program/spadmin 

[edit] Known Problems

• If you have problems while upgrading from OO 1.1.x to OO 2.x try this:
  

- If the install wizard asks you for taking old options from 1.1.x deny that.
- Remove old .openoffice* dirs from your <home>
- Remove old OpenOffice* dirs from your <home>
- Remove .sversionrc from your <home>

• To remove menu entries from OO 1.1.x in KDE:
  

- Remove ~/.kde/share/applnk/OpenOffice*

• If you can't read/write on NFS disks edit /opt/openoffice2/program/soffice you may have to disable file locking by commenting out :

# file locking now enabled by default
#SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
#export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING

• If it does not start with possible error javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!

and then you get a plain error dialog about init failed then remove your ~/.openoffice2 dir

• If your OpenOffice fails to start, verify that you have proper permissions in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, by looking at your DRI settings.
• If in doubt, this configuration should work:

 Section "DRI"
 Group "users"
 Mode 0660
 EndSection

• Or, if you don't want to enable DRI and related stuff, run it as ROOT
• If the setup wizard pops up everytime openoffice is run (and performance is poor, keeps hanging) then check permissions on ~/.openoffice2, it might be owned by root

[edit] OpenOffice 1.1.4 Setup

[edit] Installation

• Download the base

# pacman -S openoffice-base

• You must install a language pack, otherwise it will not run! (English is not included)

# pacman -S openoffice-XX (where XX is a language)

• Spell Checking requires additional packages!

# pacman -S openoffice-spell-XX (where XX is a language)

[edit] Addons

OpenOffice quickstarter is available for KDE

# pacman -S oooqs

[edit] Setup

1. Run '/opt/openoffice/setup' to setup OpenOffice for a regular user
2. Run 'soffice' to start OpenOffice.