emerge ooextras for openoffice, then what?

odocoileus · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 45

I recently installed oo, and then installed ooextras, but when I look in openoffice options, I see the path for things like icons and graphics and such are mostly in /opt/OpenOffice.org, and the options don't seem to allow for multiple paths. Emerging ooextras put everything in /opt/ooextras, does that mean I have to figure out where each individual extra file goes and manually put it there? Or is there an install script somewhere that I am missing?

swimmer · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:

Well - I emerged it as well and at the end I get this message

odocoileus · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 45

OK, I see now how they add more paths, but it looks like there are more than just templates there, some icons maybe. I guess I need to add that path to several paths. I am guessing Templates, Gallery, Icons, Graphics? But what about the simpress part of ooextras, are they just templates too? I am inexperienced with oo, so I am not sure.

hakbeest · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 27

I just installed openoffice-bin and ooextras, but there doesn't seem to be a templates path. Googling has revealed nothing.

Sergejs.Magers · n00b Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Latvia

I have to say too, that the Templates PATH has disapeared.

theCoder · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Florida, USA

I'm seeing the same thing. I just discovered and installed ooextras, but I can't find any sort of template path in the OO.o options paths. I can't find any way of adding one either. I have "Backups", "Gallery", "Graphics", "My Documents", and "Temporary files".

I have app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 installed. Maybe something changed in this version?

Sergejs.Magers · n00b Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Latvia

There is a dirty hack:
just copy all those files to /usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/.
But that's dirty and i just un-merged ooextras. (i know i'm weird)

carpman · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

Hello, any updates on this?

Does not seem to be a way of adding a new path?

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revrollic · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:45 am Post subject:

I just soft linked the stuff in /opt/ooextras to where the other templates are (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/template/en-US). Pretty much did:

Vrenn · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 318

Nice solution, but why hacking in the portage managed directories? Just do in your your home directory:

madisonicus · Veteran Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1130

I can add the ooextras templates by going to File -> Templates -> Organize, right-click "Import Template...", and then navigate to /opt/ooextras. You can select more than one with shift-clicking.

I'd suggest filing a bug in bugzilla to let the maintainer know that there appears to have been some change in how openoffice.org arranges things. Should just require a quick update to the ebuild postinst information.

Thanks for posting about this. The templates are very cool, and I had no idea that ooextras even existed.

HTH,
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Vrenn · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 318

Seems to be fixed in 2.1. I can confirm this on the -bin version x86, tomorrow ill install the amd64 source. But it has been confirmed that the source version funktions too.
A big thank you to the developers of Gentoo and Openoffice and I can't wait to 2.2

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