Webtop Help(OpenOffice)

[stevenavm]

Hello-

I am new to the boards as a poster, i've been reading for a while now and I must thank everyone especially in the development section of the forum for their incredible amount of help and expertise.

It has officially come time for my first noob question-

Can anyone help me out or lead me to a guide perhaps that will allow me to use OpenOffice on my webtop? This is really what I bought the lapdock for-it just came in yesterday.

I managed to get webtop2sd working on my own, lxterminal is functional. That's all I've got so far in fear of ruining anything else.

I'm not at all well-versed in any linux script or anything of the sort. I know windows like the back of my hand.. just so happens that my windows PC totally bit the dust(motherboard) last night and I'm forced into learning this stuff a little quicker. Why not, right?

I have done some searching, all of it leads me to a bunch of lingo and commands I don't understand yet. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help or provide me with a little one-on-one that would be awesome. I'm looking forward to helping others with these kinds of issues down the road.

Thank you!

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Also, I'm not sure if it's any help, but i'm running GB on Alien #4 with faux123's undefined 1.3ghz kernel.

 

[omni_angel7]

See "EASY METHOD" in the original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093790

Assuming you have webtop2sd and the linux addon installed properly
(with the linux image on your external SD), do the following:
1) Click the Penguin. You will get a window that says it has found an image in you external SD card.
2) Simply press "okay" on that window.
3) Once it shows the Pdmenu, select DebianMenus>Applications>Shells>Bash. it will bring up an xterm script which reads "[email protected]:/#"
4) To get open office, you must type "apt-get install openoffice.org" without the quotes.
5) Agree to install/update, and it will read "[email protected]:/#" once it is done.
6) At this point, and from now on, you can do steps 1-3 and simply type "openoffice.org" into xterm. It will take a second, but it will load a fully functional OpenOffice.

Basically you just need to know the package names to use this same structure for other programs. I use "openoffice.org", "iceweasel" (a firefox alternative, since my firefox keeps breaking), and "geany" (a C++ IDE for my programming classes). These are installed using "apt-get install packagename" and run using "packagename" in the bash script as well.
Good luck, and PM me if you have any problems because I likely will forget to return to this thread. Hit that thanks button!
-omni

 

[paravorheim]

Follow the guide in Alex's thread in the dev forum. I just installed open office yesterday haha.

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[stevenavm]

+1 to both of you, I'll get started on that and hopefully that will open doors for the rest of the stuff. Thanks a ton

 

[stevenavm]

Hello again all-

I didn't want to be that guy posting 95823094820394 threads about the same thing so I just figured I'd bump the one i created with some explanation:

I have webtop2sd properly(i believe, anyway) installed. LXterminal is functional. I also have linuxdisk in sdcard(-ext)/WebTopMOD . I'm not sure what to do from here. the help given above gave instructions to click the penguin while in webtop and run certain commands, but the penguin only brings up the webtop configurator. i have no other icons to click.

My goal, again, is just to get open office running on my webtop, for now. That's really it, the rest i'm sure will come with time. Thank you again for any help.

 

[stevenavm]

I seem to have figured it out for the most part using Alex's guide. However, the installation threw a couple errors, couldn't really tell you what they were because they were epic and I'm clueless as far as linux for the time being. However, my educated guess and deduction points towards insufficient memory. I set up my webtop partition to be 1GB, because I'm using a 16GB sd card that's virtually full of music. Is 1GB skimping it if I want to install openoffice/other linux packages? What size partition is recommended?

Thank you!

 

[omni_angel7]

4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.

 

[feriy]

Also openoffice worked, But i think it dosent match the atrix ubuntu core perfectly.
An error name:"openoffice Writer2laterx dose not configured" happened again and again.

 

[stevenavm]

4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.

i am using an external SD, a 16 GB one. i'm about to make a 4GB partition and start from scratch. eventually, i'm picking up a 32 no doubt.

 

[pederb]

After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.

"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package

Any ideas?

Cheers

 

[teeth_03]

After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.

"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package

Any ideas?

Cheers

my guide links a fix for that, but I use a different method than the one previously posted

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397583&highlight=guide+webtop

 

[pederb]

Thxs, I will check it out

Cheers

 

[VGenius]

Cant open files from sdcard

Hello, I finally got openoffice installed, but I dont know how I can open files located in my sdcard. Can anyone please help me with this?