On Monday 17 January 2005 05:39 pm, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I have SuSE 9.2 Pro, bought from Amazon.com here in the U.S. of A.
I downloaded the 1.1.4 version (which has some bug fixes that apply to me), ran ./setup -net as root to put the installer files in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4; and then as my regular user ran ./setup from the /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4 directory.
The OOo docs indicate that if one tries to do an install this way, OO will try to update any existing workstation installation it finds for the user.
Well, the installer seems to be working, because it found my existing OOo installation from SuSE, but then it tells me it can't update my existing installation because the 1.1.4 version is in a different language.
How do I find out what language version of OOo 1.1.3 SuSE has installed for me? The instdb.ins file in the .ooo-1.1 directory inside my home folder has a line that reads: DefaultLanguage = "01"; elsewhere there is a section that reads: Directory gid_Dir_User_Autotext_Language ParentID = gid_Dir_User_Autotext; HostName = "english";
Lots of other places in the file show "english" when I do a search for "language".
Any ideas?
Don't know how to solve your exact problem, but what I would do (and I did when I installed 1.1.4) is to: 1) Let 1.1.4 install into a new user directory.... (OpenOffice.org1.1.4) 2) When that is done: cp -par ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.3 OpenOffice.org1.1.4 3) Then start up OO and make any changes necessary. You'll have almost all of your settings and if you don't like the result, you haven't lost anything; you'll still have your original directory. Or... just install into a new OO directory and make the settings changes.