[Novalug] solution to problem with OpenOffice 2 after upgrade of Debian

[Angelo Bertolli]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:48:58 -0400
Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> This command finally worked, after a move from the standard 
> OpenOffice 1., and solving some problems with a new version 
> of OpenOffice some time ago. How this works I don't remember,
> but it did. Somehow, I installed the program in
> /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.

I'm not sure either, it's not there for me--it's under /usr/bin.  You 
probably installed it by using rpm2cpio on the packages from the 
openoffice.org website (since they seem to only provide rpms).

> My question: is this a really dumb way to do it? What are some
> of the pitfalls that might bite eventually?

You should be able to install it natively using synaptic.  It shouldn't 
be in /opt if you install it from the repositories.