On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 20:25 -0500, Willis Gregory wrote: > I submitted this as issue #41482 on the open office web site, but have gotten > no response after several weeks, so I'm trying a user group for help. >
[snipped] > > I contacted Mandrake, and they told me to go to openoffice.org. Of course. RH does this all the time. Both 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 under FC3 are so bad that I installed 1.1.4 directly from OpenOffice.org. > > Before submitting the bug to openoffice.org, I tried removing Open Office and > reinstalling it. Same problem. When I did an rpm -qa, it shows the > following components installed: > > OpenOffice.org-1.1.3-2mdk > OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.1.3-2mdk > OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.1.3-2mdk > OpenOffice.org-libs-1.1.3-2mdk > > The only non-Mandrake software I have installed on the system is Firefox for > the web browser. I run Open Office 1.1.3 on another system using Suse 9.2 > and don't have any problem. > > Any help/ideas would be appreciated. > Willis, Mandrake packaged up OOo for their distro as we at OOo do not make an rpm distro. So I would recommend that you install 1.1.4 as I did directly from one of the official mirrors and see if that doesn't fix things. If it does you can go back to Mandrake and get them to fix their packaging so that it works. -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
