openoffice in Karmic

[Errol Sapir]

Thnk you both. I'll try those solutions and report back.
Errol

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   

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