Hello, I am on Kubuntu Feisty with all latest updates installed. I did follow this instruction precisely removing and purging all files that came with distribution. I tried to install openoffice 2.3 from the openoffice website. I tried both DEB version and RPM via alien as was described here.
Installation goes without any problems. I can open, say, writer program, but when i try to open any file the whole OO window just closes. The same happens when I select "About Openoffice.org" in the Help menu or try to click "Close Document" [X] button. I can see no errors on console when the crash occurs. Any ideas? Dan Lewis wrote: > > On Saturday September 22 2007 06:34 am, John Lovely wrote: >> Can anyone explain how to install OpenOffice 2.3 on Linux? (Ubuntu 6.10) >> >> OOO has had a "one-click installer" just like Windows forever but OOO >> 2.3 is a disaster! >> >> So far, I've downloaded the OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_en_US_deb.tar.gz >> I've gunzipped it >> I've done a tar -xvf on the resulting tarball >> >> And now I've got a whole pile of debs (about 30) and a Readme with no >> installation instructions at all. >> >> Does anyone know how to install it from here? >> >> Am I supposed to dpkg all 30 debs, 1 by 1 or is ONE of the debs the MAIN >> deb that will start the install? If so, which one? >> >> Whatever happened to the OOO install executables that made linux >> installs as easy as windows? >> >> Thanks >> >> John Lovely > > If you have the version that came with Ubuntu 6.10, you need to > uninstall it first. Here is what Hagar de *'Est wrote in an article, > "[Ubumtu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co." You will find it on the > www.8daysaweek.co.uk web site. Once you have removed any previous version > of OOo, skip to step #5. Use a terminal to do this, and make sure you are > in the directory which contains all of the debs. > > > The Ubuntu concept is that once a flavor is released, there is no update > for its content, except security issues. Therefore, once you stick to a > flavor (Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, ...), your OOo version is not updated. Basic > reason is : integration has been validated with this package, a new one > could mess the system. > > But Ubuntu releases of OOo are known to be rather bugged, especially the > Feisty one (slideshow in Impress causes crash recovery systematically, > Base wizards freeze at the very end of the process among the most > 'popular' bugs on the Ubuntu forums). > > As OOo is released with RPMs (Ubuntu uses deb format, same as Debian), > you > cannot install OOo directly but you need to convert the files to .deb > format. > > Here is a method for all Debian based distros : > > 1. Remove all the packages from the installed version > Go to Synaptic or your package manager and mark all the openoffice.org2 > packages installed to be removed. This is mandatory for your first upgrade > of the distro delivered OOo version, no need to to that for the next > upgrades. > For Ubuntu, the system will also remove the ubuntu-desktop package. No > worry, this is a meta package that can be removed safely. But in case you > want to upgrade your whole distro, you'll have to install back this > package (and the OOo original version). > > 2. Download the tarball (.tar.gz file) from the official OOo web site > See here : http://download.openoffice.org/index.html. > > 3. Extract the tarball in a directory > Open a terminal and : > > Code: > tar -vxzf namefile.tar.gz > > You should see a new folder, say ooo_inst_folder. > Go to the RPMS subfolder > > Code: > cd ooo_inst_folder/RPMS > > > 4. Convert the files with alien > > Code: > sudo alien -d --scripts *.rpm > > Note that the --scripts parameter is needed to avoid bugs afterwards > (lack of it doesn't prevent the installation). > > NB: if alien is not installed, then: > > Code: > sudo apt-get install alien > > > 5. Install the created .debs > > Code: > sudo dpkg -i *.deb > > > 6. Update the Gnome menu > To be adapted according to your desktop manager, see the content of the > desktop-integration subfolder. > > Code: > cd desktop-integration > sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.#.#-#_all.deb > > Here you are, menus should have been updated. > _________________ > OOo 2.2.1 / Ubuntu 6.06 > > Dan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-To-Install-OpenOffice-2.3-on-Linux-tf4500899.html#a12859035 Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
