On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:54:20 -0400
Daniel Lewis <[email protected]> dijo:

>John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> I need OOo working by tomorrow evening when I have a presentation to
>> deliver.
>>
>> I had OOo 3.2.1 from openoffice.org installed and running fine on
>> Fedora 11 x86_64. I upgraded to Fedora 13. Afterwards none of the OOo
>> applications will launch. I can't find the executables. Previous
>> versions of OOo were in /opt, but I have scoured the folder and its
>> subfolders with no luck. I installed using the setup script as root.
>>
>> I tried reinstalling but all I get is error messages that the
>> packages are already installed. But where in the heck are they?

>      Fedora 13 should have its variation of OOo listed in the K Menu. 
>But if you are looking for the OOo executables, they are probably in a 
>bin folder in /etc. Search for soffice.bin using locate in a console.
>      Did you keep a copy of OOo 3.2.1 when you upgraded to 13 from
> 11? 
>If so, reinstall it. (You probably did not save a copy on a CD or
>flash drive.)
>      Other choice: download the OOo 3.2.1 file from the OOo website.
> It 
>is still available.

This morning with a clear head I managed to fix the launch items. For
some reason the upgrade from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 killed the path to
the executables, which are in /opt/openoffice.org3/program/. 

Now all I have to do is figure out if I still have the OOo version, or
if the upgrade messed me up and installed the Fedora version. The 
Help > About says that I have:

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
OOO320m18 (Build:9502)
Copyright © 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
reserved. This product was created by Oracle, based on OpenOffice.org.
OpenOffice.org acknowledges all community members, especially those
mentioned at http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html.

Bear in mind that when I had Fedora 11 x86_64 I uninstalled OOo from
the Fedora repos and installed the OOo version. I did this long
ago when the latest version was 3.1.1. Before I upgraded from Fedora 11
x86_64 to 13 x86_64 I downloaded 3.2.1 from OOo and used the setup
shell script to install 3.2.1. So I had the OOo version before the
upgrade to Fedora 13 x86_64. And I remember putting "openoffice" (or
similar term) in some file somewhere called "excludes" to some such so
that the Fedora updater would not keep telling me there was a new
version, i.e., it's version in its repos.

I probably still have the OOo version, but it would be nice to be sure.

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