On Saturday 31 January 2009, Basil Chupin wrote:
Just to be sure, do not allow YaST/zypper (or even smart) to update your (32-bit) 11.1 installation of OpenOffice to the latest version - leave it at 3.0.0.9-1.11.
I allowed zypper to update it this morning and now I have one big f***-up, and lost the ability to run OpenOffice.
I've spent the past 9 hours trying to figure out how to get my working OO back and the only conclusion I have now come to is for me to use 'rpm -e OpenOffice*' and reinstall from the DVD (with the BuildService STABLE for OO *disabled* in the repos).
Now your mileage re this may vary and you may even have had no problems with YaST updating your OO on your system - which is fine. But if you are yet to update OO then watch out for the list of the dependency errors, and then simply do not attempt to update OO.
Urgh, urgh, urgh, there were wrong dependencies. The following steps worked for me: 1. Have the default OOo-3.0 from openSUSE-11.1 3. add the extra OpenOffice.org repository in YaST2 2. start "Software Management" in YaST2 3. select "OpenOffice_org" for update; agree to remove "OpenOffice_org-l10n-extras" and other packages to remove the conflict 4. select "OpenOffice_org-ure" to delete (popup menu when you press the right mouse button); agree to delete few more dependent packages 5. select "OpenOffice_org-libs-external" to delete 6. press the "accept" button; agree with the automatic changes I am going to improve dependencies of the OOo-3.0.1 packages to avoid these problems. It might take one or two days until the fixed packages appear in the installation source. Also I am not sure whether the first fix will be enough. You might watch and comment the progress at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471280 I am really sorry for all these troubles. It is pity that nobody reported it earlier. I have put OOo-3.0.1-beta1 into the OpenOffice_org:UNSTABLE repository before Christmas :-( I am really sorry, once again. Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org