openoffice in Karmic

[Eberhard Roloff]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/11/4  <errol at tzora.co.il>:
>> I am having trouble opening any of the open office programs since upgrading
>> to Karmic. Any way I try and open a spreadsheet or word processor (clicking
>> on the icon, using alt/F2, or clicking on a relevant document) starts a logo
>> of open office and then nothing.
>> No further activity takes place. I tried "sudo apt-get install
>> openoffice.org" and was informed that I had the latest updated version of
>> openoffice.
>> Is this a bug I should report, or is there another solution?
>>
>> Errol
> 
> Try to start the programs from a console to see if you got any error messages.
> 
Also try to remove the .openoffice.org directory from your 
home directory. Just to be sure, I would move it
like this:

mv .openoffice.org/ .openoffice.org.back/

With my installation, I had the same. This was because 
before the Ubuntu upgrade, I had installed openoffice.org 
from the original openoffice.org website (i.e. not from 
Ubuntu). So after the upgrade I ended up with a dual 
openoffice install. One was from ubuntu, the other was the 
old one from openoffice.org.  After moving .openoffice.org/ 
the Ubuntu supplied openoffice worked for me.

As I do prefer the original versus the goo-oorg version from 
ubuntu, nevertheless, I finally removed "anything 
openoffice" from synaptic and then installed freshly with a 
version from openoffice.org.

That solved it for me.

Kind regards
Eberhard