Problems with the merged openoffice. :(

arnbak · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Denmark

Hi!

Ive just merged openoffice with 'emerge openoffice'

It finishes without problems, the problem appers when im trying to start openoffice.

I get the following:

$ oowriter
running openoffice.org setup...
setup failed.. abort

What can the problem be, and what can be done to solve it :?:

Ian Goldby · Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject:

Have you tried running the setup program? It looks like the first time you run any component of OO it tries to run the setup program first, but maybe you could try runing setup explicitly (from the K-menu perhaps)? OO has to create an OO folder in your home directory and set up various options before you can use any of the components.

green sun · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 325 Location: Wista, MA

I believe I had to run it the first time as root.. then it went through the setup & everything was fine...

Ian Goldby · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 8:09 am Post subject:

I certainly never ran it as root, but of course, YMMV 8-)

green sun · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 325 Location: Wista, MA

Which probably implies some permission problems on dirs in my home directory...

arnbak · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Denmark

I still get the same error, no matter what i do.

Setup Failed.. abort ??

Caffeine · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 3:06 pm Post subject:

I'm having the same problem too. Haven't found a solution yet.

djnauk · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 12:03 am Post subject:

that makes three of us

although, i'm using openoffice-1.0.2
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sheepdog · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:14 am Post subject: setup

OpenOffice runs /opt/OpenOffice<...>/setup initially. Unfortunately, on my system this is a broken link to /opt/OpenOffice<...>/program/setup, because there is no /opt/OpenOffice<..>/program directory. I suspect the same problem is the cause for everyone else with this complaint. Do ls -la /opt/OpenOffice*/ to see. If so and I find a solution I'll post back.

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Note added: Just noticed there is already a bug report on this: 14752.

loginx · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:45 am Post subject: Re:

I remember having the same problem when I was trying to use OO.o with fluxbox, they then came up with a patch for fluxbox that fixed the problem.
What window manager are you guys using with openoffice ?
I'm emerging it right now so it won't be compiled until tomorrow heh...
I'll let you know by then if I'm affected as well.

Caffeine · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:51 am Post subject:

I'm running only KDE 3.1 and was installing openoffice-bin 1.0.2. Maybe I'll compile it instead.

arnbak · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Denmark

Im was running waimea and compiled it :cry:

djnauk · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 9:15 am Post subject: Re: setup

djnauk · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 9:16 am Post subject:

arnbak · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Denmark

Ill will have to do it also.

trouser_pilot · n00b Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Calgary, AB

I just checked all OO executables in /usr/bin. They're links to the script "/usr/bin/ooffice". One of the things this script does is try to run the setup if you are not already set up. It looks for "/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/program/setup" but this does not exist. Under /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.2, there are 2 links to programs/setup and a directory (users). There is no "program" directory. Hopefully someone can get this fixed. Even on DSL, it's a long enough download and the compile takes a while even on an Athlon XP 1700 (didn't time it, just went to bed)

HomerSimpson · l33t Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 869 Location: Ohio, USA

I was having problems as well.

I unmerged Openoffice and deleted everything having to do with it.

I then emerged openoffice-bin and ran ooffice. Then it ran setup and now openoffice seems to work. Unfortunately it is no longer in my gnome menu. How do I get openoffice to install launchers in my gnome menu?

Thx
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trouser_pilot · n00b Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Calgary, AB

I ended up unmergin openoffice and merging openoffice-bin.