Software Installs

[JD Runyan]

On Tue, Oct ,  at 06:38:05PM -0600, Don Erickson wrote:
> In article <3BDE1DB2.4F14E409 at kcnet.com> you write:
> >
> >I consider myself a seasoned "newbie" and do ok with Linux and am
> >adapting to gnome now instead of KDE. 
> 
> Apparently the new programs are not being added to the start menus.  I
> think that Star Office is added to KDE's menus but not Gnome's.  To run
> Star Office go to whatever directory you installed it in and type
> "soffice" to run it.  The binary on the acrobat reader is called
> "acroread", which should be in your path.
StarOffice 5.2 was written when GNome was not fairing well, so the
authors of the Installer did not bother to do anything with GNome.  It
is the software installer's responsibility to add something to the
menus.  I would assume that the installer for v6 will add things to
GNome since Sun has participated in the GNome project, and they are
going to use GNome to replace CDE on Solaris.

If you install Star Office using multi user mode(/net switch) then you
will find the binaries in the directory tree that you specify, and then
the first time a user runs it, you will have a mini install that will
create a directory tree in your home, that will have a link to the
soffice binary.
> KDE seems to be generally better at adding programs to the panel than
> gnome, but at a shell prompt you can run any programs that you have on
> your computer.  The "locate" program will help you find things that are
> not in your path, like "locate soffice" should tell you where any files
> that include the string "soffice" are located. 
> 
> >I have tried Sun's Star Office
> >5.2, Netscape 6.1, Lime Wire, and Adobe Acrobat reader.  The installs
> >give me no errors but afterwords I can not find anywhere to launch the
> >application. 
> 
> The command line is your friend.  If you'd rather mouse-click to start
> things, once you find the binary that launches the program you can drag
> and drop it from a file manager onto your desktop.  Also,
> /usr/share/doc/<program name> might contain information.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Don
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