On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:23 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: > Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some > reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In the > past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is well with the > world again. > > But not this time! > > I use alien to convert the rpms provided by OO to debs. Then use dpkg > to install the debs. > > I've tried removing older versions of OO. I have even downloaded OOo > again, checked the md5sum and re-installed it. > > The closest I can get to a working program is at /usr/bin/ooffice which > will not open any files (not even native OO files) > > I'm sure it's not an OO problem as it was working perfectly before. > > I noticed that alien was upgraded, and I'm wondering if that's the > problem. > > I ran alien in verbose mode, but no errors were reported. The only > error I found was this: > > coolbox:/opt/OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_en-US.8990/RPMS/desktop-integration# > dpkg -i ./*.deb dpkg: > regarding .../openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.1-1_all.deb containing > openoffice.org-debian-menus: openoffice.org-core conflicts with > openoffice.org-unbundled openoffice.org-debian-menus provides > openoffice.org-unbundled and is to be installed. dpkg: error > processing ./openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.1-1_all.deb (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org-debian-menus > Errors were encountered while > processing: ./openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.1-1_all.deb > > > I'm sure this should only affect the desktop integration, and not the > program itself. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > >
May I suggest you try 2.0.2rc1 from ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/OOB680_m1/Build-1 in deb format. Pavel builds these for situations like yours. If these work then you can go back to troubleshooting or not as suits you -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
