{"id":806,"date":"2008-10-20T02:52:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=806"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:07:23","slug":"launching-openoffice-under-red-hat-enterprise-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Launching OpenOffice under Red Hat Enterprise Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that a number of people have found their ways to this &#39;blog because they've installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a> under <abbr title=\"Red Hat Enterprise Linux\">RHEL<\/abbr>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a> doesn't seem to launch.<\/p> <p>This is probably an <abbr title=\"Security-Enhanced\">SE<\/abbr>Linux issue.  If so, then it should be resolved either if one goes to the directory containing <code>libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1<\/code> and (as root) runs <blockquote style=\"width: 100%; overflow: auto;\"><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxcommand.org\/man_pages\/chcon1.html\">chcon<\/a>&nbsp;-t&nbsp;textrel_shlib_t&nbsp;libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1<\/code><\/blockquote> to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/selinux\/\"><abbr title=\"Security-Enhanced\">SE<\/abbr>Linux<\/a> to accept the interface, or if one up-dates to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a> 3.0.0.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I notice that a number of people have found their ways to this &#39;blog because they've installed OpenOffice under RHEL, but OpenOffice doesn't seem to launch. This is probably an SELinux issue. If so, then it should be resolved either if one goes to the directory containing libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1 and (as root) runs chcon&nbsp;-t&nbsp;textrel_shlib_t&nbsp;libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1 to get [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[72,139,140,143,142,141],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-linux","tag-openoffice","tag-red-hat","tag-redhat","tag-rhel","tag-selinux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}