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venkat Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:28 pm Post subject: Openoffice.org 1.0.3 problem |
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Hi,
I originally had installed Oo 1.0.2 from GRP and teh application was not starting in KDE. I then upgraded to Oo 1.0.3 using emerge and it went through the whole compilation without any errors and said that the new version is installed. If I type emerge -s openoffice now it show the application as installed. But I find that the executables are still not working. Looks like the old installation is conflicting some how. Previously I had explicitly unmerged Oo 1.0.2 before I installed Oo 1.0.3. Now whatever version the executables in usr/bin belong to, the application is still not starting at all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Venkat. |
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fcgreg Apprentice
Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 264 Location: California, USA
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:58 am Post subject: A few questions |
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A few questions for you:
- How are you attempting to launch the application(s)? Are you using a link/icon in a window manager or the command line?
- If using a window manager, which one?
- If you're not launching from the command line, try typing "oowriter" from a command prompt (from inside of your running window manager). Does this launch the application?
- If things still aren't working, go to a command prompt as root and type:
Code: | find / -name "oowriter" -print |
Does this find more than one entry of the "oowriter" app on your filesystem? _________________ Greg T. |
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venkat Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
Thanks for your reply. I am trying to run it from KDE. I tried to launch it from KDE start menu it didn't work, then I tried it from console, it says
Quote: | running openoffice.org setup...
setup failed.. abort |
there is only one instance of teh executable found at /usr/bin, but i have mounted a mandrake directory in my /mnt and it has a oowriter executable in it's usr/bin. I also tried explicitly calling the oowriter using full path. same result
the application just fails to launch. the compilation took so many hours and ended without any errors as i said.
thanks,
venkat. |
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fcgreg Apprentice
Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 264 Location: California, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:04 am Post subject: Found some things |
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OK, I searched the forums here and many others have been having the same problem as you recently. For more information, please see this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=82954
It appears there are a few common issues:
1) It seems to be happening to users that had prior versions of OpenOffice installed.
2) It seems to be related to one or both of the following:
a) The file "~/.sversionrc" might have problems
b) The Open Office "program" directory might be missing or incomplete (should be located at "/opt/OpenOffice.orgVERSION/program")
I hope that helps. _________________ Greg T. |
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venkat Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Greg!
At somepoint I gotta improve my search skills
Thanks again,
Venkat. |
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