G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:44 -0600, JimWagner wrote:
Back a few weeks ago, I installed OpenOffice 2.0 on my Mandrake 10.0,
following the instructions on the Home Page.
Last night I was forced to remove Open Office 2, but I downloaded it
again. Unfortunately, every time I try to follow the instructions on
the web page, I get an unresolved dependencies message. Tthe Desktop
integration needs core 01, which needs core 02, all the way to core 10,
which needs core 01 again.
I even downloaded the program a second time, with the same result.
I have an old version of Open Office 1.1, which came with the Mandrake.
Fortunately, I have gotten into the hapobit of saving all my files three
times, .odt, .sxw, and .rtf, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
To reiterate, just to show that I did read the FM, I followed the
instructions on the web-site for the opening of the program.
The biggest problem is that I'm fairly sure I've missed some little
thing, but I haven't the faintest idea what.
Please compare the steps you took with the RPM installation instructions
in
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf
IIRC, these may help.
I followed the instructions at :
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/instructions.html#linux
There, the command they used was :
execute rpm -Uvih *rpm.
I cut this and pasted it into the terminal, to prevent typing errors.
However, this morning I went to the link you suggested, and the command
they suggest is rpm -Uvh *rpm.
First attempt got me this error: error: cannot open lock file
///var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK in exclusive mode
On a hunch, I went to root and tried again. It went right to work and
unpacked everything.
I have not yet had time to check it out to see if the program works,
just thought I'd give this update.
As I keep saying, my business is writing, and I know little bits and
pieces of Linux fundamentals, not enough to know why the "i" in there
should prevent it from working. Near as I can make out the "i" stands
for "install."
JimW
