oo2 does't appear to install from tce/optional via app browser

[Juanito]

It looks to be a story of symlinks.

oo2.tcel
/usr/local/bin/soffice -> /usr/local/oo2/program/soffice

oo2.tczl
/usr/local/bin/soffice -> /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice
/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice -> /usr/local/oo2/program/soffice
/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice -> /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice

It appears that something gets lost in the chain of symlinks and soffice cannot find these two files:

/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/pagein
tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/bin/soffice.bin

when it should be looking for these two files:

/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/pagein
/tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice.bin

This can be fixed by changing the menu item/icon to launch soffice by "/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice" rather than "/usr/local/bin/soffice"

This means that it cannot be started from the command line, but I guess if you use oo2, you probably wil not use the command line anyway 

Anybody see a better solution?

[Jason W]

Placing the scripts that are installed in /usr/local/bin (sbase, soffice, scalc, spadmin, sdraw, swriter, simpress, smath) in a user.tar.gz makes it all work as a tcz.  They themselves are symbolic links so they will not take up space.

[Juanito]

Yeah - I guess this way we have consistency between the tcel and tczl extensions...

[curaga]

Did you find the underlying cause? Which part is unable to follow several symlinks?

[dentonlt]

I didn't see anyone reply that this has been 'fixed.' I'm digging for a proper fix.

EDIT: for me, changing a link seems simple enough -

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#!/bin/bash

set -x

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/soffice
ln -s /tmp/tcloop/oo2/usr/local/oo2/program/soffice /usr/local/bin/soffice

exit 0

[Juanito]

Sorry - I'd completely forgotten I needed to fix this. Give me a day or two and I'll get on it.

[Juanito]

I played around with the symlinks suggested above and several others besides - it still doesn't want to work.

I did discover I'd posted the user.tar.gz version though