On 11/04/10 12:47, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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. >
I finally got rid of Ubuntu's version of OOo and installed Oracle's version from the OOo web site. I did it from a document I printed from the "http://www.muktware.com/"; web site. Did you want to dump Fedora's version in favor of the one on the OOo's web site? Maybe you can find the instructions like I was given here - i.e. the link to the pages that are from that site. It walked me through the full process. I have been using Ubuntu and its version of OOo and dumping it was my only way to fix a problem. I did try to have both version installed at the same time, but it did not work properly for me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
