[gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying:
"The help file for this topic is not installed."

I cannot find any package or USE Flag. Asking Google I only
get noise.

The package installed is openoffice; I did not realize there
is a precompiled version openoffice-bin at that time.

I myself will stick using TeX but I am convincing other
people that Linux and OpenOffice is a better choice. So this
problem comes in very inconventient for me.

Thanks for any hints in advance.

Bertram


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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

[Daniel Iliev]

Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying:
> "The help file for this topic is not installed."
>
> I cannot find any package or USE Flag. Asking Google I only
> get noise.
>
> The package installed is openoffice; I did not realize there
> is a precompiled version openoffice-bin at that time.
>
> I myself will stick using TeX but I am convincing other
> people that Linux and OpenOffice is a better choice. So this
> problem comes in very inconventient for me.
>
> Thanks for any hints in advance.
>
> Bertram
>
>
>   

I've noticed that when asking about package related problems it is a
nice idea to send at least tho output from "emerge category/package
-pv".  ;-p

My suspision is that you have "doc" flag disabled. Please, check if
"emerge -pv app-office/openoffice" gives you "-doc". Also the same could
be hecked with "euse -i doc" if have app-portage/gentoolkit installed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

[Chris Atkinson]

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On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:44:13 +0100
Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:


> in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying:
> "The help file for this topic is not installed."

Is it possible you don't have the java USE flag enabled? The openoffice
ebuild contains the following warning:

"You are building with java-support disabled, this results in some 
of the OpenOffice.org functionality (i.e. help) being disabled.
If something you need does not work for you, rebuild with
java in your USE-flags. Also the xml use-flag is disabled with
-java to prevent build breakage."

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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi Chris,

Am Freitag, 03. Nov 2006, 23:15:16 -0500 schrieb Chris Atkinson:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:44:13 +0100
> Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> 
> > in OpenOffice, when hitting F1, I only get a dialog saying:
> > "The help file for this topic is not installed."
> 
> Is it possible you don't have the java USE flag enabled? The openoffice
> ebuild contains the following warning:
> 
> "You are building with java-support disabled, [...]"

I did something like "emerge openoffice && halt" and left
the computer alone for a night. So I couldn't see that
output. Sorry.

Now it works. Thanks.

Bertram


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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice help files

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:15:46 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:

> I did something like "emerge openoffice && halt" and left
> the computer alone for a night. So I couldn't see that
> output.

"genlop -i openoffice" will show you the USE flags used to emerge it.


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