[arch-general] openoffice does not work

Christian Leng rookie999.ly at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 00:42:02 EDT 2008


Well, I've just retreived the answer from the Arch Forum.
It's just because the missing of dependency of libsndfile

2008/8/17 Christian Leng <rookie999.ly at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I'm a new user of Arch. I've installed openoffice via pacman. However,
> it doesn't work anyway.
> Accoring to the Arch Wiki, I added 'OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome'  into my
> ~/.bashrc, but nothing changed.
> Clicking at the OOo items in the desktop menu, nothing happens. Then
> when I tried to run OOo from the terminal using command
> "$/usr/bin/soffice", error info is:
> -------------------
> no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
> -------------------
>
> I just don't know what is the matter.
>



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