Hello John,

On Monday 29 November 2010, 21:51, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I have OOo 3.2.1 installed on Fedora 14, x86_64 (Gnome). The version I
> installed was downloaded from OOo, not installed from the Fedora
> repositories.
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded Fedora 13 to Fedora 14, including a lot of updates
> since Fedora 14 was released. Today none of my launch menu items will
> launch the program. The program files appear to be intact in /opt/, but
> nothing works. From the command line I go to the folder containing
> (e.g.) swriter, type swriter, and get an error that there is no such
> command.

you do

] swriter

or

]./swriter

if the folder is not on the path, only the second one works.

> I tried reinstalling, but yum said all the packages are already
> installed. That is, except I didn't reinstall the desktop integration
> package. I suspect reinstalling it might cure the problem, 

no. there is an issue (I don't recall the number) with the URE package, 
so that you have to exclude this package in yum configuration 
otherwise it gets updated with Fedora's one.

You can see that 
~]$  yum info openoffice.org-ure
shows


Installed Packages
Name        : openoffice.org-ure
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.8.0
Release     : 9536
Size        : 9.5 M
Repo        : installed
Summary     : UNO Runtime Environment
License     : LGPL
Description : UNO Runtime Environment

Available Packages
Name        : openoffice.org-ure
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 3.3.0
Release     : 15.2.fc14
Size        : 2.5 M
Repo        : updates
Summary     : UNO Runtime Environment
URL         : http://www.openoffice.org/
License     : LGPLv3 and LGPLv2+ and BSD and (MPLv1.1 or GPLv2 or LGPLv2 or 
Netscape) and (CDDL or GPLv2) and Public Domain
Description : UNO is the component model of OpenOffice.org. UNO offers 
interoperability
            : between programming languages, other components models and 
hardware
            : architectures, either in process or over process boundaries, in 
the Intranet
            : as well as in the Internet. UNO components may be implemented in 
and accessed
            : from any programming language for which a UNO implementation (AKA 
language
            : binding) and an appropriate bridge or adapter exists


the version scheme in Fedora package follows the one in the 
OOo Fedora release 

Version     : 3.3.0

but the one downloaded from OOo not:

Version     : 1.8.0

So the one from Fedora's repo is seen as an update from
the one from OOo's site.

You will have to edit /etc/yum.conf  and add:
exclude=openoffice.org-ure
or better
exclude=openoffice.org*

in the [main] section

> but I don't
> know which package to install:
> 
>      ...freedesktop-menus...
>      ...mandriva-menus...
>      ...redhat-menus...
>      ...suse-menus...
> 
> It's probably either freedesktop or redhat, but I don't want to install
> the wrong one. I can't remember which one I used before, and I can't
> find anything in the documentation.
> 
> Can someone help me get my OOo working again?

IMHO the better thing to do is a clean install.
First remove everything:

[r...@localhost ~]# yum erase openoffice.org*

then reinstall everything.
Untar the package downloaded from OOo, go to the RPMS folder, do a

[r...@localhost ~]# yum localinstall openoffice.org*

then go to the desktop integration folder and install the one for RedHat 
(notice that the one for FreeDesktop should work, because Fedora
is supposed to follow the FreeDesktop standard).


Regards
-- 
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina

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