New install, cant install OpenOffice

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Thanks in advance for the help.

I have a new install of 15.4. Downloaded OpenOffice, but can’t install it.
I have checked permissions for the files and directory, it is set as my name and users group.

In YaST software manager the following error shows.

Cannot access installation media
dir:/data2/Downloads
downloads (Medium 1).
Check whether the directory is accessible.


dir:/data2/Downloads

File './OpenOffice_en-US/RPMS/openoffice-ure-4.1.10-9807.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'dir:/data2/Downloads'

Any help is appreciated

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Is file actually present there?

ls -lR /data/Downloads/
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Is there a reason why you don’t install it from the online repositories?

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There are no Openoffice repositorys as Openoffice got obsoleted by Libreoffice (for openSuse).

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Additionally you seem to have a typo in your local repo setup:

File ‘./OpenOffice_en-US/RPMS/openoffice-ure-4.1.10-9807.x86_64.rpm’ not found on medium ‘dir:/data2/Downloads’

You have a dot in front of your filepath. Shouldn’t be there. It seems that you set up your local repository (on your hdd/ssd) with the wrong pointers/filepath.

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It is set as a Local Directory, Plain RPM Directory
/data2/Downloads
Enabled, Keep Downloaded Packages

It has always worked in the past.
I am going back to the Apache OpenOffice site and have found specific Linux. Notes. I will work through those and reply back.
thanks.

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Yep, and thats wrong. It should be in your case:


Local Directory
Plain RPM Directory
/data2/Downloads/OpenOffice_en-US/RPMS
Enabled^
Keep Downloaded Packages
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Yep, and thats wrong. It should be in your case:


Local Directory
/data2/Downloads/OpenOffice_en-US/RPMS
Enabled
Keep Downloaded Packages

Restart yast-software after you have done this.

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Nice tutorial in 57 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg3d6fT2AP0

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Inside my rpm directory:

stephan@linux64:~/Programme86x64/Programme> zypper se -s openoffice
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No matching items found.

Downloading

stephan@linux64:~/Programme86x64/Programme> wget https://www.openoffice.de/download/OpenOffice_4.1.12_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_de.tar
--2022-07-17 18:21:32--  https://www.openoffice.de/download/OpenOffice_4.1.12_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_de.tar
Auflösen des Hostnamens www.openoffice.de (www.openoffice.de)… 178.63.85.148
Verbindungsaufbau zu www.openoffice.de (www.openoffice.de)|178.63.85.148|:443 … verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 200 OK
Länge: 203006117 (194M) [application/x-tar]
Wird in »OpenOffice_4.1.12_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_de.tar« gespeichert.

OpenOffice_4.1.12_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_de.tar    100%=====================================================================================================================>] 193,60M  10,4MB/s    in 20s     

2022-07-17 18:21:53 (9,65 MB/s) - »OpenOffice_4.1.12_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_de.tar« gespeichert [203006117/203006117]

Unpacking:

stephan@linux64:~/Programme86x64/Programme> tar -xf OpenOffice_4.1.12_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_de.tar

After refreshing:

 zypper se -s openoffice
Repository-Daten werden geladen...
Installierte Pakete werden gelesen...

S | Name                               | Type  | Version     | Arch   | Repository
--+------------------------------------+-------+-------------+--------+--------------
  | openoffice                         | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-base                    | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-base              | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-calc              | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-de                | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-draw              | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-impress           | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-math              | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-brand-writer            | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-calc                    | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-core01                  | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-core02                  | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-core03                  | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
  | openoffice-core04                  | Paket | 4.1.12-9809 | x86_64 | Programme-rpm
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And its in the directory:

ls -al ~/Programme86x64/Programme/de/RPMS/
insgesamt 196608
drwxr-xr-x 3 stephan users     4096 12. Apr 18:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 stephan users     4096 12. Apr 18:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 stephan users     4096 12. Apr 18:28 desktop-integration
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users   144321 12. Apr 18:25 openoffice-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users  2921605 12. Apr 18:24 openoffice-base-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users     2646 12. Apr 18:28 openoffice-brand-base-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users     2646 12. Apr 18:26 openoffice-brand-calc-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users     8961 12. Apr 18:27 openoffice-brand-de-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users     2644 12. Apr 18:27 openoffice-brand-draw-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users     2676 12. Apr 18:27 openoffice-brand-impress-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users     2646 12. Apr 18:28 openoffice-brand-math-4.1.12-9809.x86_64.rpm
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Thank you for the help. I was not able to get zypper or YaST to work for this issue.

Using the instructions from Apache https://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#linux , finally did install with rpm

The openoffice4.1.12-suse-menus wouldn’t install via zypper, rpm or YaST.
The error showed up as:

#### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2022-07-17 16:11:44 ####

nothing provides '/etc/SuSE-release' needed by the to be installed openoffice4.1.12-suse-menus-4.1.12-9809.noarch


     ] do not install openoffice4.1.12-suse-menus-4.1.12-9809.noarch


     ] break openoffice4.1.12-suse-menus-4.1.12-9809.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

I forced it via YaST to install broken. It did install, and the apps are in the menu, but without icons.
This kind of bites, but at least it is working.

Any solution to the that minor issue? Is there a menu editor or another way to modify the menu?

I am using LXQT on a fresh Leap 15.4 installation btw.

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The menu-rpm are also in a sub directory or the RPMS directory. Simply install them from there…

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I was able to locate the icons. All were installed in /opt as normal. The problem is that the system doesn’t see them. I did find that the gnome menu editor is what LXQT uses, so with that installed I have the menu icons.

The next challenge is how to link the mimetype icons.

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Icons are searched for in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons and $XDG_DATA_DIRS by default does not include /opt.