Well, I decided this evening to switch out the drives on my PowerBook G4 (a Power PC system that I've had for about two years now.)
I decided to install the original software packages (Mac OS X 10.3.4) and then upgrade directly to Tiger (MacOSX 10.4.2). I installed X11 after completing the upgrade not as a part of the installation. Then I decided to update Java to the latest 1.4.2 version. OpenOffice.org WOULD NOT START. Interesting. So I decided to continue on installing software updates (there were nine at this point.) I upgraded MacOSX to 10.4.8 but not install Java 5. Again, OpenOffice.org 2.1 WOULD NOT START. So I installed Java 5 to Release 5. Along with all of the security updates to 2007-002. OpenOffice.org NOW STARTS. I think the key part is that Java 5 is now required to run OpenOffice.org 2.1. So, the system needed to run OpenOffice.org 2.1 is: MacOSX 10.4.8 Java 5 release 4 or release 5 (I think that I have release 4 on my Intel system.) OpenOffice.org 2.1 either Power PC (for G3/G4/G5 systems) or Intel (for Intel based processors). This may help other Mac users and is based, again, on my personal experiences on my hard drive 'downgrade' today. James McKenzie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
