Hi Eric,
Eric Hines wrote:
I seem to have screwed something up egregiously, and I can't recover. I
downloaded version 1.9.104 with a view to upgrading from 1.9.77, and I
ran rpm -Uvh, apparently successfully (all umpteen files were loaded
into the rpm command).
Except that I couldn't run any of the packages.
Even invoking swriter from the command line (I had no icons on which to
click) had no effect.
Did you try invoking soffice (or swriter) with a path? You may have a
leftover, non-functional 1.9.77 'swriter' in your $PATH.
BTW: To get icons or menu entries, you need to install one of the
desktop integration packages (in subdirectory 'desktop-integration';
choose the one whose name matches your distro) in addition to the
program packages that are directly in the untarred RPMS directory.
I tried to uninstall this version (rpm -ev...)
and got back the message "<all packages> is not installed."
That sounds like you provided wrong parameters for rpm -e.
So I tried
to reinstall it and got the message "...already installed." I removed
the tar and rpms, downloaded anew, installed again, and got "...already
installed."
To clean up things, you need to uninstall all leftover OOo 1.9.x
packages on your system. Try
rpm -qa | grep openofficeorg
to find all OOo packages you still have installed and the use rpm -e to
uninstall all the 1.9 packages that are listed.
This time, though, when I invoked swriter from the command
line I got error messages saying libuno_sal.so.3 and libcomphelp4gcc3.so
don't exist. In fact, they do exist and are in the
/opt/openoffice.org.1.9.104/program directory, right along with swriter,
et al.
What 'swriter' do you actually invoke?
I'm running FC3, kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
Then you need the openofficeorg-redhat-menus package from
desktop-integration/.
Can anyone help me get past this?
HTH
Jörg
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