Whoa Stop! On 05/14/2012 06:43 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 13:25:37 +0000 (UTC) David H <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Rod Lockwood <rodlockwood <at> provide.net> writes: >> >>> >>> Well, it worked. It still removed the old install of OpenOffice. >>> I had to rename the LibreOffice folder under Users/<user>/ to >>> OpenOffice.org, but after that everything went fine. >>> >>> However, the arrow keys don’t work. The touch pad moves the >>> cursor around and I can use the rest of the keys, but not the >>> arrow keys. The arrow keys on the numeric keypad won’t work >>> either. >>> >>> Whether this is because I installed into the LibreOffice folder I >>> don’t know. >>> >> >> ... >> dave@Daves-Home:~/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration$ sudo dpkg -i >> *.deb (Reading database ... 184115 files and directories currently >> installed.) Unpacking openoffice.org-debian-menus (from >> openoffice.org3.4-debian-menus_3.4-9590_all. deb) ... dpkg: error >> processing openoffice.org3.4- debian-menus_3.4-9590_all.deb >> (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/mime/packages/ >> openoffice.org.xml', which is also in package libreoffice-common >> 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by ...
The error is written for you. >> I have removed Libre through apt-get purge but a remnant is still >> there. I get a menu in Office- LibreOffice. I have tried but do not >> know how to get rid of this remnant. Is this messing with my >> install? How do I get rid of it? >> > > Try Sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core > > Then delete your OpenOffice profile ad previous Libreoffice profiles. > Easiest way is to open your Home folder, enable viewing of Hidden > Files (Ctrl H in Nautilus) and then delete or rename .openoffice and > .libreoffice. Now reboot (perhaps not strictly necessary, but I > always do it - remembering old Windows install problems). Now > reinstall AOO 3.4. Hopefully all should now be well. > It seems that the "advice" (even in the AOO developer threads) is to rip out/purge LO in order to install AOO. This is just plain wrong... LO "advise" says the same about OOo/AOO. Please... it's not necessary to remove *anything* with a linux install of AOO - unless of course you can't figure out how to create a menu launcher/link to /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice. AOO will exist happily alongside LibreOffice (any flavor), and even older versions of OOo. @Rod: No idea what you were replying to, or to whom, but your *only* issue with the install it seems is attempting to install the desktop-integration .deb. Don't. The desktop-integration .deb (in OOo, AOO, LO) is, from a user perspective, an antiquated piece of code that should have been replaced long ago. Rather than providing independent /opt/ standard freedesktop menus, icons, and setup, openoffice.org3.4-debian-menus_3.4-9590_all.deb (and the others), the deb attempts to overwrite existing distro packaged code. This has been apparent for years in OOo - and so we (users) live with it and simply bypass any provided 'menus' deb file. All you need to do is install the main /AOOen-US3.4/DEBS files, and then create a menu/launcher to /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice - done. Unless of course you also have an old install of linux OOo/go-oo installed and do not wish to use/overwrite the user profile for that. In this case (Ubuntu/Debian) sudo gedit /opt/openoffice.org3/program/bootstraprc and then modify line 5 to: UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org3.4/3 Done again. You'll then be able to run multiple versions of OO (AOO, OOo, LO) at the same time in parallel to each other. As an example, on this system I have the following: $ locate soffice.bin /opt/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/soffice.bin /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin /opt/ooo-dev3/program/soffice.bin /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin I didn't have to "purge" anything to accomplish this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
