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. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
