Hmm, sorry, no ida at all.
Do you run a 64 or 32 bits ?
Hagar
Le 24.09.2007 21:17, aya a écrit :
Thank you Hagar. But I would not bother you guys if it was that easy. I did
everything, and as I wrote in my post I purged ALL openoffice packages and I
DID delete the openoffice dir in my home. And still no luck.
Hagar de l'Est wrote:
Just to be sure, check that there is absolutely no more
"openoffice.org2..." package with the "ubuntu" string in the version
number. Even language pack or help files.
Then, try to rename or delete the OOo user profile (~/.openoffice.org2).
Hagar
Le 24.09.2007 14:34, aya a écrit :
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.
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OOo 2.2.1 / Ubuntu 6.06
Dan
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