Bug#369924: [dev] [Fwd: Re: Bug#369924: soffice in PATH missing - automatic soffice starting from jar not possible]

[Rene Engelhard <rene@openoffice.org>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 17:08 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
> it can't work. The bootstrap mechanism searches for an soffice in the
> path, links are resolved and when a executable is found (binary or
> script) the mechanism expects that the executable is found in a office
> program directory  and the known directory structure is interpreted in
> some way to bootstrap.
> A link soffice to ooffice won't help  because the ooffice script is in
> usr/bin and the bootstrap mechanism will fail. In this case you have to
> use the UNP_PATH environment variable.

Thanks for the explanation. I guess I really have to add a soffice link into
/usr/bin pointing to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice, then...
Will be in the next packages' revision (i.e. 2.0.3-1 with current plans)

Regards,

Rene