The only thing on my system that still sets the PATH incorrectly appears
to be gdm and that normally is overridden. So I am reassigning this bug
to gdm.
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: openoffice.org => gdm
Status: Incomplete => New
** Summary changed:
- soffice doesn't wor
I guess the real question is:
Does anything still accidentally put /usr/bin/X11 into the PATH or is it
just a user misconfiguration issue? If anything still puts /usr/bin/X11
into the PATH then that needs to be corrected since it is just a symlink
for backwards compatibility for old scripts.
Chri
1. Use full paths instead of relative paths for executables in /usr/bin.
>From what I recall using full paths violates policy...
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Do not add /usr/bin/X11 to path, causes problems with relative symlinked
binaries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250372
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The xorg symlink is unlikely going away, so this should be fixed in
OO.o.
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: xorg => openoffice.org
Status: New => Triaged
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soffice doesn't work, ooffice does
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250372
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It looks like /usr/bin/X11 is now a symbolic link to /usr/bin and just
exists for backwards compatibility - someone tries to run
/usr/bin/X11/xmessage and they actually run /usr/bin/xmessage. xmessage
works with either of those paths.
However the compatibility is broken if the files that are reall
This bug is due to some kind of weird interaction of the PATH being set
and symlinks being relative (i think that is the correct word). When
/usr/bin/X11 comes early in the PATH the problem happens if
/usr/bin/soffice is a symlink to ../lib/openoffice/program/soffice but
not if it is a symlink to /
Thanks for the help Chris.
My path was pointing to /usr/bin/X11 before /usr/bin, so I was trying to
run the "wrong" soffice.
dagger ~ $ ll /usr/bin/soffice /usr/bin/X11/soffice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2008-07-04 17:52 /usr/bin/soffice ->
../lib/openoffice/program/soffice*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root roo
This works perfectly for me with current Kubuntu 8.04 with all updates.
I'm confused why it thinks soffice is under /usr/bin/X11 instead of just
/usr/bin
$ type soffice
soffice is hashed (/usr/bin/soffice)
ls -al /usr/bin/soffice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2008-07-23 15:02 /usr/bin/soffice ->
../
Here are a couple lines from /etc/mailcap used to display ppt and jpg
files:
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; soffice -impress '%s'; edit=soffice -impress
'%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; description="Microsoft PowerPoint Document";
nametemplate=%s.ppt
image/jpeg; konqueror '%s'; nametemplate=%s
