I have never used the ln command before, but now I need to.
The problem is that the no-go version of OOo 3.1.1 that Fedora has in
their repositories removes a lot of features. Evidently Fedora thought
their users wouldn't notice. I need the features, so I uninstalled the
Fedora version and then installed the official OOo version from
www.openoffice.org.
Everything was cool when I first launched it. But when I tried to
launch it again it would not launch. From the command line I get the
error message that it can't find libuno_sal.so.3. Much googling reveals
that for some reason the link to it gets broken when the official
version of OOo is installed on Fedora. (And only Fedora.)
Unfortunately, the instructions for how to fix it apply only to earlier
versions of OOo, and the folder structure of my version is different.
In /opt/ I have:
openoffice.org
basis3.1
help
presets
program
share
ure-link <- Nautilus says this link is broken
openoffice.org3
basis-link <- Nautilus shows this with a folder icon and a link
arrow. The link points to the above basis3.1 folder
help
presets
program
share
ure-link <- Nautilus says this link is broken
First I changed directory to the /opt/openoffice.org3 folder. Then (as
root) I used mv to rename the ure-link to ure-link.old. When I did so
Nautilus suddenly changed ure-link to ure-link.old in both folders. I'm
not clear why that happened. Was it because of the basis-link folder?
Then I used "ln /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libuno_sal.so.3
ure-link" to create a link to the libuno_sal.so.3 file. This created a
file in both folders named ure-link. But I must not have done it right
because Nautilus says it is a shared library, not a link. And OOo still
won't launch.
I read man ln but couldn't understand very much of it. How can I
recreate the ure-link so it points to the libuno_sal.so.3 library?
Also, if someone else has OOo 3.1.1 installed, it might be helpful to
know what your folder structure is like. I suspect that one of the
folders was created by Fedora when it installed its version of OOo, and
the other was created when I installed the real OOo. But I can't tell
which is which. Maybe I can just rename one of them to get it out of
the picture.
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