On Mon, 14 May 2012 21:16:29 -0400, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
??? Excuse me? That is not my issue. MY issue has to do with the arrow
keys not working. Re-read the piece of message that you clipped from my
post.
And I am using Windows 7 Home Edition etc. I wrote that at the top of that
post.
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.
I didn’t have to "purge" anything either. I think you are responding to
the wrong message.
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