Fran Mennick wrote: > > Benton, my problem was almost exactly like yours: "tried to install > openoffice. But when I do, I get a message that says I must have X11 > in order to run OpenOffice. So, I downloaded a package and tried to > install X11. It told me I couldn't install because there is newer > software on my computer already." I went through that sequence > exactly. At that point, I could not find X11 in my Utilities folder, > but Spotlight found it, and I dragged it from there to the trash. Then > I couldn't install X11 from my install disk because I still got an > error message saying that I already had a newer version of X11 installed. > > It turned out that I had to *empty* the trash -- I found this out in > the appendix of the long, complete version of the OOo 2.x Setup Guide, > which can be downloaded from > http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html - scroll > down to "Setup Guides for OpenOffice.org 2.x," choose your language, > and download the PDF file. Look in the table of contents for Mac > installation and for the Mac OS X Extras in Appendix A. This document > is more complete that the mini and short How-To setup guides that are > easier to find on the site. > > Since your system let you install X11 from your disk (without getting > rid of the "newer" version, wherever that phantom hides), but then > didn't put it in your utilities folder, I'm not sure what happened. If > you can't figure it out from the complete Setup Guide, someone with > more expertise can probably help. > I suspect that the installation did not run properly and the Spotlight process should be followed to remove X11 and then re-install from the install disks. Do not close the window until the Installation Complete message is displayed and use the close button to close the window.
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