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NutmegCT

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Testing the waters, I've installed and set up OpenOffice 4.1.11 in my Chromebook's Linux Beta environment. Downloading and installation went smoothly.

But where is the icon to start Open Office?

I've restarted the system, opened the apps icon window, but there's no reference to Linux or Linux Apps or Open Office.

I can start a crosh terminal, but don't know what command to use to start the OpenOffice app.

yeesh
 
Sorry NutmegCT way over my head. Have enough problems with auto computers.
 
Thanks Larry. I'm beginning to think even this is over my head ...

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It really took me a while for excel, then when my first computer went down I asked my father in law how to figure it out. Since he was retired, thought maybe he could help. Told me I would figure it out, so I called my retired Dad and got the same answer. Stayed up til 3 am got it figured out and napped til 5am, went to work. Made a long day. The a couple weeks later my father in law and my Dad both called with problems asking what I did. Well I threw there you'll figure it out back at them. Was pretty unpopular for a while. I am not very educated on the computer, have the Widows 11, and an apple ipad and a kindle. But, I do have a diagnostic comouter for my Rover, MINI and Jags. Never heard of Linux til I joined this forum. My father in law had Beta, but I was not interested. My College courses in programming were the data cards, which I used in accounting in the Marines, but windows since.
 
NutmegCT said:
Testing the waters, I've installed and set up OpenOffice 4.1.11 in my Chromebook's Linux Beta environment. Downloading and installation went smoothly.

But where is the icon to start Open Office?

I've restarted the system, opened the apps icon window, but there's no reference to Linux or Linux Apps or Open Office.

I can start a crosh terminal, but don't know what command to use to start the OpenOffice app.

yeesh
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I'm not familiar with Chromebooks or Linux Beta, but the Open Office programs are named oowriter, oocalc, oodraw, etc.
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Thanks Bob. I'm afraid my Linux impatience is rearing its ugly head (again).
 
NutmegCT said:
Testing the waters, I've installed and set up OpenOffice 4.1.11 in my Chromebook's Linux Beta environment. Downloading and installation went smoothly.

But where is the icon to start Open Office?

I've restarted the system, opened the apps icon window, but there's no reference to Linux or Linux Apps or Open Office.

I can start a crosh terminal, but don't know what command to use to start the OpenOffice app.

yeesh
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NutmegCT said:
Thanks Bob. I'm afraid my Linux impatience is rearing its ugly head (again).
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Well, IMO, you've tied your own hands behind your back. Find a used Win 7~10 laptop and wipe the drive of that OS. Preferably do a LOW-LEVEL format of it. No dual-boot scheme. Download/install a *real* version of Linux, Fedora Workstation would be the better 'flavor' to start with. A "GNOME" GUI should be included with that. Once it's installed you should be able to do everything from the GUI.
 
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Hi Tom,
DrEntropy said:
Well, IMO, you've tied your own hands behind your back.
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Ditto what Doc says. I will offer a different option however that admittedly I have never tried since I don't use ChromeOS. Dump Open Office and get Libreoffice. From what I've read over the last decade or so is Open Office programmers left to create Libre, a fork of Open.
Open Office is dying.
Here is a tutorial to install Libre. I use Libre myself on Linux as well as Windows. Libre has some cool stuff but it doesn't have the huge community that Microsoft's programs have.
Libre install in ChromeOS
 
GregW said:
From what I've read over the last decade or so is Open Office programmers left to create Libre, a fork of Open.
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No argument from me! I've OO on one box, Libre on another (newer) one. Both are CentOS machines. For what little I do with spreadsheet and documents, they operate interchangeably. I stayed with OpenOffice on the older one only because Apache took it over.
 
wow - didn't realize this would be so *un*-simple!
 
I run libreoffice on mine and like it just fine. It's easy to use, and saving documents as a pdf or a word doc is very easy.
 
This is almost funny! I just wanted to know where to find the icon to start the app!
 
LibreOffice is on mine also. Open Office, which I like, can be installed in a Linux Op system, but it is pretty complicated as almost every file has to be installed separately. I think one of the Gurus will eventually get it together where all you have to do is click on an install file package to load the whole program in one shot as in MS Windows. I have Linux Mint 20 in this machine and every time they add an upgrade more Windows programs can be run. I'm running Microsoft Edge Browser right now in Linux. PJ
 
Just another endorsement of Libre Office and Linux Mint. I have had Mint on all my computers for 4 or 5 years now. The transition was really easy. Libre Office installed on it effortlessly. We even have it on the wife's Mac to replace the version of MS Office that just "quit working as no longer compatible" after an update.
 
Bayless said:
Just another endorsement of Libre Office and Linux Mint. I have had Mint on all my computers for 4 or 5 years now. The transition was really easy. Libre Office installed on it effortlessly. We even have it on the wife's Mac to replace the version of MS Office that just "quit working as no longer compatible" after an update.
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More thread drift:

Curious why Mint over a more robust (RedHat) kernel? You would have no issue dealing with Fedora or CEntOS.
 
Doc, doesn't Red Hat charge a yearly fee aside from most other free Linux-based systems? I like Fedora but never tried it on my newer SSHD machines with updated processors. It ran pretty slow on my older machines. I like playing with these Linux systems, I just downloaded the latest Linux Mint-21, and can't wait to install it and check it out! :encouragement:
 
I know that for me, I still run Mint because it makes jumping back and forth between my Linux machine at home and windows one at work easier. I don't have to think about the transition, whereas when I ran Fedora it annoyed me that I'd have to consciously think about what system I was using.
 
Paul, the Open Source community has the CEntOS releases with no fees. Same as with Fedora, a "workstation-style" version.

waltesefalcon said:
I know that for me, I still run Mint because it makes jumping back and forth between my Linux machine at home and windows one at work easier. I don't have to think about the transition, whereas when I ran Fedora it annoyed me that I'd have to consciously think about what system I was using.
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I always confuse the commands 'ifconfig' and 'ipconfig' when going back-and-forth between Windows and Linux. The GUI makes things easier, for sure.
 
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