Can't install on Tumbleweed

[Atri7]

RPM install mostly proceeds smoothly, but OO still isn't bootable if I don't install the desktop-integration files. When I try to install them, I get this error:

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atri@tallent:~/Downloads/en-US/RPMS/desktop-integration> sudo rpm -Uvih *rpm[sudo] password for root: 
error: Failed dependencies:
        openoffice4.1.7-suse-menus conflicts with openoffice4.1.7-freedesktop-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch
        openoffice4.1.7-redhat-menus conflicts with openoffice4.1.7-freedesktop-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch
        openoffice4.1.7-mandriva-menus conflicts with openoffice4.1.7-freedesktop-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch
        mandrake-release is needed by openoffice4.1.7-mandriva-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch
        redhat-release is needed by openoffice4.1.7-redhat-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch
        /etc/SuSE-release is needed by openoffice4.1.7-suse-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch
atri@tallent:~/Downloads/en-US/RPMS/desktop-integration>

None of these packages register as being already installed or available in the oS repos when I try to add/remove them with zypper. What should I do to fix the problem? Thanks.

[robleyd]

You only need one of the desktop-integration files. See the Installation instructions for Linux; in the Linux RPM-based Installation section it says:

Install the desktop integration features for your setup.
cd to desktop-integration (in the installation directory),
and install an appropriate desktop interface using RPM. (Try the freedesktop-menus first.)

[RoryOF]

From memory, installing on Xubuntu, the installation of desktop-integration may clash with a system-provided libreoffice file; I normally remove all libreoffice files before installing OpenOffice; to do so in Xubuntu I use

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sudo apt purge libreoffice*

You will have to translate that for non DEB versions of linux. Do not omit the trailing *

[Villeroy]

Do not remove LibreOffice. It is the better office suite.

Simply create your own desktop link pointing to /opt/openoffice/program/soffice
I start it via Alt+F2 or from a terminal

[Atri7]

I installed only

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openoffice4.1.7-freedesktop-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch

. It overwrote a LibreOffice file, but I still can't start OO. The terminal commands listed on the wiki don't work either. Trying to install the SUSE package returns another missing dependency error:

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Problem: nothing provides /etc/SuSE-release needed by openoffice4.1.7-suse-menus-4.1.7-9800.noarch

[Bill]

The terminal commands listed on the wiki don't work either.

The command "soffice" in the wiki has been taken over by LibreOffice. There's also a typo in the command posted by Villeroy ("openoffice" should be "openoffice4"). Using "/opt/openoffice4/program/soffice" instead of "/opt/openoffice/program/soffice" or "soffice" in the command line works for me on Manjaro.

[robleyd]

@LulaRobinson - why are you posting a response that is totally unrelated to the original question and is copied from another site??