libuno_sal.so.3 is a shared library, so I suspect your link worked
correctly, but you are now having a different issue. Did you check to see if
the error changed?

-wes

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:56 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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 <http://openoffice.org/ure/lib/libuno_sal.so.3%0Aure-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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