OpenOffice 1.02 upgraded to OpenOffice 1.03

tmo318 · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Minnesota

I upgrade OpenOffice 1.02 to 1.03 last night. Everything went fine. Now I can not open any of the office programs. When I click on the icon to start it. It starts to load and then shuts down without any error. How did I fix this?

Thanks

Tim

greg_g · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 180

Try to start oowriter from the command line and see the errors you get...

tmo318 · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Minnesota

It looks like it is pointing to 1.02. Now how do I fix that?
here is the error I get.
Gnome session manager detected - session management disabled
/usr/bin/oowriter: line 204: /home/tim/.openoffice/1.0.2/soffice: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/oowriter: line 204: exec: /home/tim/.openoffice/1.0.2/soffice: cannot execute: No such file or directory

Thanks

Tim

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

Upgrading caused lots of small problems with me.
I removed my /home/.openoffice, /home/.sversionrc,and /home/.user60.rdb and ran ooffice from a console.
Also, I had to re-install my printers using spadmin, because the old ones hung OpenOffice upon use (?). I also had to do this from the console using the full path to spadmin, because otherwise OOwriter would start (?).

But now, all is well again

serge · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

Hi

I noticed that the directory /install does not exist anymore in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3. There are 2 symlimks :setup and spadmin which point to /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/program.

Then openoffice cannot start at all!

I installed openoffice already 4 times...without any success.

Serge

robfish · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

I have exactly the same problem after emerging OpenOffice 1.0.3 twice over a previously working 1.0.2 version.

I found that I can start the programs by double clicking on files in the /opt/OpenOffice1.0.3 directory (I am not at my Gentoo box at the moment so the address is from memory)

The menu items will not start OpenOffice though. Does someone have a solution?
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InVekz · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 38

serge · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

Hi again

I reinstalled openoffice. Now it works and i do have now the program directory in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3

I know now what was my problem: i chose a language that OO works well with...

Serge

robfish · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 7:13 am Post subject:

But what do you do to use menus to start the OO.o programs?

Do you create a complete new set or do you somehow get the old ones working?
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barlad · l33t Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 673

I had the same problem. As someone else stated, the first step may be to delete all your old pref files : ~/.openoffice ... After that, I launched manually the installation script of openoffice by doing :

robfish · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 9:26 am Post subject:

Please excuse my ignorance but I started the advice above with
cd /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/
./setup
and got no errors but it seemed to be making a new installation of OO.o (about 290Mb)
Surely that should not be necessary.
Should I do it as root or something? I assumed that the emerge already "installed" the program.
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barlad · l33t Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 673

Yes, everything is already installed. It will just refresh your configuration files. I do not think it is "remaking" an install, it is just registering the components and creating the config files.

robfish · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 9:44 am Post subject:

I am frustrated that I need to do this but I think I have a fairly easy fix to get the old menu items to work for OO.o1.0.3
This worked for me but I would love to know the "correct" way to do it....

In the KDE "Menu Editor"
browse for the appropriate command
e.g. change "/usr/bin/oowriter" to
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3/program/swriter
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jnicol · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Seattle, WA

I just updated to 1.0.2 (latest openoffice-bin in portage) and am having the same problem.

Elm0 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 281 Location: UK

I highly recommend upgrading to OpenOffice 1.1.0 beta. I haven't had any problems with the binary version yet (openoffice-bin) and i'm compiling a version from source right now. It starts up about 5 times faster on my PC and generally seems a lot more snappy in usage. It also seems generally more polished.

barlad · l33t Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 673

would be nice... if I could compile 1.1.0 beta. I get that nifty 65xxx message error.
I didn't notice much difference between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3.

maKKus · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 10:37 am Post subject:

For me OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 is the first release of OO.o that works correct on Gentoo. The other ones never remembered my dictionary settings (Had to select them by hand in the language and writing aid options every time I started OO.o), so I'm very pleased

.

Emerged it with package option so I can install it back at will in minutes, if newer versions are not to my liking

UclaBob · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 83

I tried the remove ~/.openoffice directory, and run the setup script...I had a bunch of errors that I ignored. Now open office runs, but I have a 178 meg file in my home directory....seeing as I already have /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.3, which is almost 200 megs, I would like to avoid this.

Can anybody suggest a course of action that will get me a happy openoffice and < 200 mb disk utilization ?

Bob

jnicol · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Seattle, WA

robfish · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject:

You get two diferent type of installations (Workstation or Network????)
One is just a few Megs the other is about 290Mb (from my memory).
I believe you should chose the smaller one as the programme is already installed (as root when emerged)
That is my understanding anyway.

Just to follow up on my problem, after getting 1.0.3 to work by changing the commands pointed to by the existing icons, I then had problems opening some files.
I decided to unmerge openoffice the re-emerge openoffice. This gave me a "clean" 1.0.3 and after reinstalling and setting up my menu items it all seems to work OK. (Note that 1.0.3 does not use oosetup. I think it is spsetup - sorry not near my Gentoo box at the moment)

I do not know if I am lucky or not but this is the first update which has not gone smoothly for me. Maybe the ebuild needs modifying because OpenOffice must surely be a popular package.
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jnicol · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 73 Location: Seattle, WA

robfish · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 10:01 pm Post subject:

I have done some more experimenting with this problem on another box and I can confirm that the suggestion from jnicol works fine.

Code:
#rm -rf ~/.openoffice/
#rm ~/.sversionrc
#oosetup
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