Update Open Office on Feisty Fawn

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 18 01:13:01 UTC 2007


On 10/17/2007 05:58 PM, Gunawan wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>

>> I wouldn't think you'd ever get it to work by converting the RPM's.   A 
>> single
>> program, usually, but that many RPM's, not likely.
>>
>> But why didn't you download the DEB files at this page?
>>
>> http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html
>>
>> See the small print  under the Linux download.
>>
> 
> I also have download DEBS files but still get the same error while 
> installing desktop-integration package.
> additional information is I did not remove previous version of Open Office 
> before install the new one.

You did fine (w/RPM's & DEBs)... almost. In order to install the
debian-menus from OOo you first need to uninstall Ubuntu's OOo. See:

http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=759

for instructions.

Before you do that however, you might first try checking to see if the
installed version runs ok: /opt/openoffice.org2.3/program/soffice

If it does, then you can choose to install paths in your application
menus my hand (right-click Applications|Edit Menus|Office|Add), or
install debian-menus. Personally I just uninstall ubuntu-desktop *
(U)OOo and go with debian-menus & OOo 2.3 and that way all symlinks are
set up correctly.

However, be aware that before you upgrade to Gutsy you'll need to
reinstall ubuntu-desktop for the upgrade - you can remove it again
afterwards if you wish. Note: 'ubuntu-desktop' is a meta package &
doesn't remove the Gnome desktop etc.





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