Ben, On Friday 26 November 2004 02:26, Ben Higginbottom wrote:

On 25/11/04 09:40 AM, Hylton Conacher wrote:

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Is there a command, and what is its syntax, to determine what version of OOo I have installed on the machine, other than C'D'ing through all the directories, perhaps find?

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OOo --version should give you the version and build.

Really? For me, it launches OpenOffice.org with a blank text document, but prints nothing on the standard output of the terminal in which I issued that command.

Regards,

Ben

Randall Schulz

On Friday 26 November 2004 19:27, Paul Cartwright wrote:

On Friday 26 November 2004 10:49 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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OOo --version should give you the version and build.

Really? For me, it launches OpenOffice.org with a blank text document, but prints nothing on the standard output of the terminal in which I issued that command.

all I did was cut and paste the line above and I got this:

pbc@linux:~> OOo --version This is OpenOffice.org version 1.1.3 built with ooo-build-1.3.5.5 pbc@linux:~>

Mine doesnt have a --version either. Its a plain install (Via apt) rikjoh@sparhawk:~> OOo --version Starting /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice... rikjoh@sparhawk:~> which OOo /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo rikjoh@sparhawk:~> file /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo: symbolic link to `OOo-wrapper' rikjoh@sparhawk:~> which OOo-wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo-wrapper rikjoh@sparhawk:~> file /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo-wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo-wrapper: Bourne-Again shell script text rikjoh@sparhawk:~> rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-2.0.3-0.pm.0 OpenOffice_org-en-help-1.1-64 OpenOffice_org-1.1-97 OpenOffice_org-en-1.1-64 OpenOffice_org-sv-1.1-64 So somewhere they changed it.. --          /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels          email   : rikjoh@norweb.se                         Web     : http://www.rikjoh.com                         Mob     : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

Ben, On Friday 26 November 2004 07:56, Ben Higginbottom wrote:

On 26/11/04 03:49 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Really? For me, it launches OpenOffice.org with a blank text document, but prints nothing on the standard output of the terminal in which I issued that command.

Make sure you use the double hyphen, not a single and that should do the trick.

Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

regards,

Ben

Randall Schulz

Jim, On Friday 26 November 2004 08:51, jim barnes wrote:

On Friday 26 November 2004 09:03 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

Works fine for me.

jbarnes@shuttle:~> OOo --version This is OpenOffice.org version 1.1.3 built with ooo-build-1.3.5.5

Weird. What do you get from: % type -a OOo For me, it's: % type -a OOo OOo is /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo Also: % file $(type -ap OOo) /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo: symbolic link to `OOo-wrapper' % file $(type -ap OOo-wrapper) /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo-wrapper: Bourne-Again shell script text % rpm -qa |egrep -i 'openoffice' OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-1.0-457 OpenOffice_org-1.1.1-23.4 OpenOffice_org-en-1.1.1-20 OpenOffice_org-en-help-1.1.1-20 Perhaps this has something to do with a hack I got from this list and applied a few months back when one of the KDE 3.3 supplementary updates caused a problem that prevented launching OpenOffice.org. I don't remember the details (and am too lazy to look them up, now), but it involved a simple edit to an OOo script.

-- Jim Barnes

Randall Schulz

On Friday 26 November 2004 11:51 am, jim barnes wrote:

On Friday 26 November 2004 09:03 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

Works fine for me.

jbarnes@shuttle:~> OOo --version This is OpenOffice.org version 1.1.3 built with ooo-build-1.3.5.5

Since I'm not using the 9.2 rpm files for OO, I do not have an OOo command. The OOo command must be a symlink added by SuSE..... could you tell me what it links to?

On Friday 26 November 2004 12:31 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Bruce Marshall [11-26-04 12:27]:

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Since I'm not using the 9.2 rpm files for OO, I do not have an OOo command.

The OOo command must be a symlink added by SuSE..... could you tell me what it links to?

pat@wahoo:~> l which OOo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2004-09-08 21:31 /usr/X11R6/bin/OOo -> OOo-wrapper*

Oh well, don't have that either and won't worry about it.

On Friday 26 November 2004 1:44 pm, Mike McMullin wrote:

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:51, jim barnes wrote:

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On Friday 26 November 2004 09:03 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

Works fine for me.

Hi, SUSE 9.2 up tp date via YOU gives: OOo --version This is OpenOffice.org version 1.1.3 built with ooo-build-1.3.5.5 pbvanca@linux:~> but OOo --type starts the app. PeterB

On Friday 26 November 2004 10:04 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Randall R Schulz [11-26-04 11:03]:

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Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

Nor does mine, but I have OpenOffice_org-1.1-97 provided by SuSE installed and he appears to have installed OO's package.

Negative, here's the rpm from the 9.2 dvd OpenOffice_org-1.1.3-16.i586.rpm

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* Randall R Schulz [11-26-04 12:52]:

Same here. It must be a difference betwee 1.1 / 1.1.1 and 1.1.3.

Plus, I'm still running SuSE Pro 9.1, not 9.2.

And I haven't moved from 9.0, yet <grin>. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

On 26/11/04 04:03 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

Certainly, with a double hypen it returns the version and build details, if you use a single hypen it starts OOo. Its also the command listed in the man pages. Regards, Ben

Ben, On Sunday 28 November 2004 03:07, Ben Higginbottom wrote:

On 26/11/04 04:03 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Did you try it? I copied the command from your email and verified it just now. It most certainly does not do what you suggest.

Certainly, with a double hypen it returns the version and build details, if you use a single hypen it starts OOo. Its also the command listed in the man pages.

Not correct. Copy-and-paste can hardly lose a character out of the middle, after all. If you'd followed all the posts, you'd see we've already determined that the behavior is version-specific, having been added some time between 1.1.1 and 1.1.3

Regards,

Ben

Randall Schulz

James Knott wrote:

I'm running 1.1.3 and it doesn't work for me.

Likewise, 1.1.3 downloaded from openoffice.org gives: der@javatux:~> OOo --version bash: OOo: command not found David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."

On Sunday 28 November 2004 10:23 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* David Robertson [11-28-04 11:09]:

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Likewise, 1.1.3 downloaded from openoffice.org gives:

der@javatux:~> OOo --version bash: OOo: command not found

Yes, you haven't told bash where to find 'OOo' or you have not put it in the $PATH and the openoffice.org download uses some other script to start OpenOffice.

OOo happens to be a script written by a SuSE employe: # Copyright (c) 2000-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. # All rights reserved. # # Author: Petr Mladek

SuSE's rpm installs apts into the normal SuSE paths. This is one of the reasons that <users> should utilize the install base that the distro is built around, in SuSE's case, rpm, or you should compile yourself and build rpm's to keep the rpmdatabase updated.

-- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535

Hi, Or he didn't 'su' first!! PeterB

On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:23 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Likewise, 1.1.3 downloaded from openoffice.org gives:

der@javatux:~> OOo --version bash: OOo: command not found

Yes, you haven't told bash where to find 'OOo' or you have not put it in the $PATH and the openoffice.org download uses some other script to start OpenOffice.  

Point in fact: Using OO downloaded from OpenOffice.org, there is no OOo command. As you have pointed out, it is an SuSE script.

Ben, On Sunday 28 November 2004 10:37, Ben Higginbottom wrote:

On 28/11/04 03:43 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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If you'd followed all the posts, you'd see we've already determined that the behavior is version-specific, having added some time between 1.1.1 and 1.1.3

Yes thanks I caught onto that after I'd replied. Does the man pages for your version supply an answer?

Amazingly enough, the manual page is consistent with the absence of this option, as is the "--help" option output, as first noted by Patrick S.

Regards,

Ben

Randall Schulz