This has also happened to me a number of times when opening OOo.
Something that occurred to me is I have both 2.4.1 & 3.0 installed. The
update prompt occurs when opening 2.4.1. Could it be detecting the
updated version? Have nothing definite to base this on, but it is a
possibility.
Cannot remember why, but I had to uninstall then reinstall both versions
and it stopped.
Stephan G wrote:
Jim Allan wrote:
Stephan G wrote:
Recently, the automatic updated that is part of OO gave me a nudge
suggesting that I download and install version 2.4.1. I did so, and
installed the new software without incident. When I look at
"Help->About OpenOffice.org", it tells me that I am running version
2.4.1. However, I keep getting annoying nudges telling me that I
need to install 2.4.1, which is (as I have explained) already
installed. So I went through re-installing it, and the installer
didn't even give "install" as an option. It gave only "Modify",
"Repair" and "Remove". So I chose "Repair", and the installer
chugged along for about fifteen minutes, and again indicated a
no-problem solution. Software seems to work fine. But I do keep
getting bugged about updating to, you guessed it, the same software
I already have installed.
If I go to Help->Check for Updates, it either fails with the message
"Checking for an update failed.", or it tells me "You are running
version 2.4. There is a new update, 2.4.1, do you want to download
it?" But of course, I am ALREADY running 2.4.1.
I am also running OO under Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, and have
not encountered anything like this. Nor have others come to this site
or any other site that I have seen with this problem. It would appear
to be rare or even unique to you (unless others now come forth with
similar problems).
That information is of no help.
All I see to suggest is to try uninstalling OpenOffice.org
altogether, and then installing it again. (Note, as long as you have
OOo_2.4.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe from your previous
install, your should not need to download again, though it wouldn’t
hurt to download again if the download doesn’t take too long.)
Indeed, if you have the time, the most complete attempt you can make
is to blow away OpenOffice.org entirely in uninstalling it and then
blow away any paths that match those in Format → Options... →
OpenOffice.org → Paths and all OpenOffice directories in c:\Program
Files\. Then install version 2.4 as a clean install. Note: this will
mean that you will lose any templates and backups and settings that
you might have made. You can keep these, perhaps by just renaming the
paths rather than blowing them away and then, after you have
reinstalled, mover the contents of the renamed paths back into the
newly created paths, file by file.
However, if the only problem is the nudges, then as a work-around,
you might more easily make things appear to be fine by just telling
OOo to stop prompting you.
Jim Allan
I have now completely made it a clean install, by unistalling and
reinstalling. And the installer program I had is, in fact, not the
one you wrote but:
OOo_2.4.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe
But in the work directory it creates, the readmes all still refer to
2.4, and the installer itself says (in its own status bar) that it is
installing 2.4. So I guess there is just a weird bug here. I am
clearly running 2.4.1. Open Office tells me that in the Help->about
menu. But it also tells me when it nudges me or when I check for
updates that I am only running 2.4.0 (which is wrong) and that there
is a new 2.4.1 out there.
I suspect some sloppiness on the creation of this installer, since I
have been using the automatic installation and upgrade paths for
OpenOffice since version 2.1, and have never seen this behavior.
It is pretty annoying.
Thanks for your input though.
-s
P.S. I even checked the md5sum of my installer -- everything is A-OK.
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