OpenOffice2 package

William F Pearson III wfpearson at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 14:53:29 UTC 2005


I was having trouble with OO.org2 and now the packages aren't in
universe to reinstall it. What the hell happened? some of the pacakges
are there, others arent.

On 4/27/05, Andy Choens <gunksta at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had 1.9.79 installed on my system.  I made my own debs, and tried to
> use the ones people mentionned for download.  Both sets of debs
> installed and ran perfectly.  But, the new OOo didn't add itself to my
> menu.  So, I wrote my own .desktop files, but then discovered that OOo
> wasn't opening the files correctly from Nautilus.
> 
> So, I looked at the .desktop file and the start script from 1.9.79.
> There was nothing interesting about the .desktop file in
> /usr/share/applications.  However, I did find something kinda
> interesting in /usr/bin.  There I found a perl script, not a binary
> for starting swriter, scalc, et al.  So, I looked in
> /usr/lib/openoffice2and discovered it had the exactsame structure as
> my new installation in /opt.  So I copied the 1.9.96 installation from
> /opt to /usr/lib/openoffice2 and don't have to write my .desktop files
> and nautilus continues to work perfectly, without me resetting the
> mime-types for all of my office documents.
> 
> I see this as having 2 benefits.  1) I saved myself a lot of work in
> terms of making my office work-flow incorporate the updated OOo and 2)
> I can still use apt-get to upgrade into breezy, since Breezy will just
> over-write the installation because it still thinks I am using 1.9.79.
> 
> Two things you should know and be aware of.  You will have to change
> all of your settings again, so any configuration tweaks you had before
> won't be carried over, and you will lose some gnome integration.  The
> default installation doesn't include the gnome support for the open
> and save dialogs, but that will come back when you update to breezy.
> 
> --andy
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