Hi, I was wondering if you could help me sort out an NSIS error. Until last night, I had never come up against one and I've had an interesting crash course - after which, I still feel quite ignorant. In my haze of confusion, I emailed a colleague of yours who doesn't normally deal with these sorts of things. Still, he was helpful and now, I'm even more encouraged that Open Office might be for me. As far as I can tell, I keep downloading a "broken" version of Open Office 3.3.0; but I haven't a clue why. The one I most recently attempted was: OOo_3.3.0_Win_x86_install-wJRE_en-US.exe And the corresponding MD5 thingy is: b7de217e5945b3a28c7f4f3698e51aa4. This is according to Open Office's own list of MD5 sums. I used the digestIT2004x64 to calculate the MD5 that is actually part of my downloaded installation file and it is: 82f9d46d58e457dc79f468181dce39cc. They don't match. But seeing as I have tried to download this latest version of Open Office so many times, I'm now at a loss. I am new to Open Office and until I tried to update the version I had - 3.2 - things were working fine. Now, I'm concerned that I won't be able to get it back again. I'd appreciate all the help you could give me. And I so hope to hear from you soon. Thank you, in advance. Best regards, Christina
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:56:47 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [distribution-dev] English 3.3.0 > > Christina Rodriguez wrote: > > Hi Christina, > > first of all I need to say that this is not the right place for these > kind of installation problems. This mailing list is for OOo distribution > or problems with this. > > But I'll try to help as far as I can before pointing you to other > ressources. > > > I wanted to contact you to say that I am a having problems installing > > OpenOffice 3.3.0 (USA). I had the preceding one and so far, it was > > working fine. That is, until I searched for an update. After I > > downloaded "the update", I could no longer open OpenOffice - either > > version. I then made several attempts to fix the problem but I am not > > very computer saavy. So, if you could help, that would be great. > > > > The problem seems to be an NSIS error. I don't know what that is but I > > tried to follow OpenOffice's advice (from the forum) and downloaded some > > tool that could verify/calculate the MD5 something or other; but then, I > > didn't know what to do with the number sequence that popped up. > > When you have already a MD5 sum of the file that you have downloaded, > then please compare it with the appropriate one from this list: > > http://download.openoffice.org/md5sums/3.3.0_md5sums.txt > > If it's not exactly the same, then you have a broken download file > (maybe due to usage of proxy server or download manager or from another > location than OOo), so you need to get it again. > > Further info about how to use MD5: > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html > > However, for further help you should go on in the forum or you can also > write to the "[email protected]" or "[email protected]" mailing > list. Here much more people are listed that may have already seen the > same problem. > > > I originally sought out OpenOffice because I didn't have (nor could I > > afford) a Microsoft package. But now, I like the idea of giving > > OpenOffice a go. I was still in the early stages of getting to know the > > product but so far, I was happy. And I loved that other > > entities/organisations are having to take your .odt files seriously. I > > don't know how you do it but I like it. Thanks. > > Thats the magic of Open Source. :-) > > Best regards > > Marcus -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
