Koffice installs but won't run
Dear friends:
[Using Xandros 2.0/Debian and KDE 3.1.4]
I decided to install Koffice 1.3 on my system by recompiling from source
tarball. The installation seems to have been a complete success. I installed
all of the prerequisites mentioned on the Koffice source web page. And when I
first ran ./configure (as user), I discovered several more dependencies that
were lacking in my distro. I installed them all successfully from my own
distro's sources. The second time I ran ./configure, it was a complete
success, without a SINGLE error message or missing this or that or anything.
It concluded with a "Good", now go on to "make." The "make" stage (as user)
went through smoothly as did the final "make install" (as root). Not a single
error message. Like a dream. Koffice installed everything in /usr/local/kde,
a nice, safe place.
Secondly, I'd like to mention that I also installed kdeutils 3.1.5 from
source tarball. The installation was a total success, and its applications
are working fine.
Here is a printout of the /usr/local/kde/bin showing both koffice and
kdeutils:
sher@Dell:/usr/local/kde/bin$ ls -la
total 1942
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 784 2004-03-12 12:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2004-03-11 05:59 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13866 2004-03-11 05:43 ark
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5971 2004-03-12 09:44 karbon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5508 2004-03-11 05:44 kcalc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68489 2004-03-11 05:44 kcharselect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5795 2004-03-12 09:51 kchart
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56773 2004-03-11 05:44 kdepasswd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50267 2004-03-11 05:44 kdessh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237892 2004-03-11 05:46 kdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5660 2004-03-11 05:47 kedit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77961 2004-03-11 05:47 kfloppy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5811 2004-03-12 09:52 kformula
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 788231 2004-03-11 05:50 khexedit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796 2004-03-12 09:58 kivio
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 181563 2004-03-11 05:51 kjots
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5908 2004-03-11 05:52 klaptopdaemon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23182 2004-03-12 10:34 koconverter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14707 2004-03-12 09:29 koscript
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5867 2004-03-12 10:00 koshell
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5080 2001-08-04 12:02 kprconverter.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5811 2004-03-12 10:08 kpresenter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5612 2004-03-11 05:58 ksim
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5795 2004-03-12 10:18 kspread
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11939 2004-03-12 10:35 kthesaurus
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81594 2004-03-11 05:58 ktimer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5811 2004-03-12 10:24 kudesigner
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5795 2004-03-12 10:20 kugar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 233283 2004-03-11 05:46 kwikdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5795 2004-03-12 10:32 kword
sher@Dell:/usr/local/kde/bin$
Now, for some reason, while the Kdeutils applications are all working fine,
the Koffice applications are not. I've tried to launch them, and they won't,
either from the console or with a desktop shortcut. Here is what I mean:
KEDIT FROM KDEUTILS:
sher@Dell:/usr/local/kde/bin$ ./kedit
KWORD FROM KOFFICE:
sher@Dell:/usr/local/kde/bin$ ./kword
koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in
kword's desktop file. Check your installation !
sher@Dell:/usr/local/kde/bin$
I have a feeling that this is a minor issue, probably a configuration issue.
I would really appreciate your help in overcoming this last hurdle.
The installation is a success, but the patient is not yet alive.
Benjamin
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Benjamin Sher
delphi123@zebra.net
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