Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:16 am Post subject: OpenOffice says it installed, but no desktop icons or folder
I dnloaded the current copy of OpenOffice for OS X last week. I tried installing it on a 333 white iMac running OS 10.2 and OS 9 in dual boot (for legacy apps).
The first time through the install, I didn't wait for the X windows to finish installing despite all the "are you sure" warnings. Silly me, I saw two installers on the system dock, I saw one finsih, I assumed X Darwin was done.
Anyway, the second time through, Open Office installed without any errors and without trying to install any kind of X windows (X Darwin went ahead and installed successfully on the first pass).
I've got a desktop icon for XDarwin which I can open to terminal windows, but I can't find icons or new folders for OpenOffice anywhere on the hard drive, including the Mac Applications directory. Surely I'm not supposed to launch it from the command line.
From other posts, it sounds like the path of least resistance is to go back and get NeoOffice instead.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:
Did you download the 1.1.2 GM release or one of the betas floating around? The OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 GM release will create a folder named "OpenOffice.org1.1.2" within your Applications folder. Within this folder is an application named "Start OpenOffice.org". Double-click that application to launch X11 and OpenOffice.org.
OpenOffice.org is an X11 application and is not a traditional Mac appplication, so it doesn't have its own icon directly within Applications like other Mac apps.
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