Why in the world are you using 1.1.3 when 2.2.1 is current? 1.1.3 is at least 3
years old. Is Debian providing you with this? I suggest downloading 2.2 and
enjoying a working OOo install on Linux.
Quoting Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi, Jonathon!
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:14:29PM +0000, jonathon wrote:
> > Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> > >Open Office 1.1.3 on Debian "Sarge" GNU/Linux, Gnome 2.8.3.
>
> > I realize that the official motto of Debian is "We will
> > release no code before its time".
>
> ;-)
>
> > OOo 1.1.3 is several years old. I'd recommend upgrading to
> > OOo 2.2.1. If you don't have the hardware requirements to
> > run that, then upgrade to OOo 1.1.5 security-patch.
>
> Hmm. I've got a PC with a 1.2GHz Athlon, and 768Mbyte RAM. I _hope_
> that's enough. I ran a WP, a good one, on my 8MHz Atari ST with 1Mb RAM.
> ;-)
>
> > > When I click on "help" I get the following rude message:
> > >"The requested document does not exist in the database !!".
>
> > That is the default message when OOo can not find a file it
> > needs, to respond to a user request.
>
> [ .... ]
>
> > >I would, at the very least, expect the message to tell me the name of
> > >the missing file
>
> > And create additional obstacles for the l10n/i18n teams? OOo is an
> > extremely difficult program to localize. [There is are a number of
> > solid reasons why it is suggested that l10n teams have lots of
> > experience with other projects, before tackling OOo.)
>
> OK, fair point. But, yes, I think in this particular instance it would
> be reasonable to expect the filename (and path). How much more difficult
> is it really to translate
>
> sprintf (s, "Couldn't find the file %s.", filepath);
>
> than
>
> strcpy (s, "The requested document does not exist in the database !!");
>
> into however many languages? That's not intended as a rhetorical
> question, by the way - I know next to nothing about i10n/i18n, apart from
> how to spell them. Keeping the filename secret in these error messages
> causes widespread pain and suffering, both to me (and an unknown number
> of other people suffering the same thing) and to you and your colleagues,
> who have to field complaints which are less than totally respectful.
>
> What _is_ "the database", by the way?
>
> [ .... ]
>
> > The most common reason for the omission of the help file, is that it
> > has not been translated into the language that the UI is in.
>
> That surely doesn't apply to me; my whole system, including OO, is
> installed in English.
>
> > The second most common reason for them not being included, is that they
> > weren't ready when the program was built.
>
> <Resists the temptation to add a pointedly sarcastic reply.> Would it
> not perhaps be a good idea to include the help file in the "lowest common
> denominator" language (i.e. English) in such a case?
>
> I still don't know where this help file should be installed. I don't
> even know if it's a single file, or whether it's a directory. If I knew
> its name, I could search for it on my system in case Debian had somehow
> installed it "in the wrong place", and move it to the right place; or
> perhaps notice that there'd been an error while installing it ("couldn't
> find bunzip2", perhaps), and fix it. Failing to find it there, I could
> search the Debian installation DVD and install it "by hand". Being
> totally stumped, I just feel helpless, frustrated and angry - and pretty
> negative about OpenOffice, even though the problem's more likely to be in
> Debian's installation stuff rather than OO itself.
>
> > jonathon
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Ittersbach, Germany).
>
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