RE: [SLE] RE: OpenOffice error
StarOffice/OpenOffice have one main install location (per machine) and one 'client' install (per user). (They don't use the word 'client', but I can't think of the correct name one right now.) /opt/OpenOffice.org/ is the shared install point. Whenever a user starts OpenOffice for the first time, OpenOffice gets installed in that users directory ~/OpenOffice/. This directory contains about 2mb (as apposed to the full version in /opt/OpenOffice.org, which is somewhere between 100-300mb). This is where users-specific stuff is stored, kind of like a profile. If you look at ~/OpenOffice/soffice, it's just a symbolic link back to /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice. I'm not sure what is wrong. You could try removing your OOO profile. rm -rf ~/OpenOffice You should probably back it up or move it, rather than deleting it.) If that doesn't work. Make sure you don't have the associations messed up. Take a look at these files: ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.* Hope that helps, - Lowell -----Original Message----- From: Martin [mailto:earl072001@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:23 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] RE: OpenOffice error I have OpenOffice 1.0.1 installed and when opening ppt files I'm getting non recoverable error and simpress crashes. What I found out is that this happens when i open Konqueror and click on the file ...this way simpress is being run from /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/. If I open up simpress from ~/OpenOffice/program everything is fine and I can open any ppt file with no problem. OpenOffice has menu shortcuts ran from /opt/OpenOffice/program by default so is this some bug? Why it is being installed on two different places? I'd like to also upgrade to 1.0.3 but don't have SuSE rpm just OOO tarball. How should I do it? Martin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
I'd like to also upgrade to 1.0.3 but don't have SuSE rpm just OOO tarball. How should I do it?
Martin
Just follow the instructions on the OOo site. I just went from OOo 1.0.1 (from SuSE cd's) to OOo 1.1 beta tar from OOo site, followed the instructions there, then moved my user files (dictionaries, thesauruses, templates...) from my OOo 1.0.1 directories over to my new OOo 1.1 directories, and all went fine. Yes, it did install to new /usr & /home directories. That's okay. When your done tweaking the new version, you should be able to uninstall the OOo 1.0.1 via Yast, and then delete your /home directories for OOo 1.0.1 (just make sure you have everything you want from your /home directories first! Bernd
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