Openoffice 2.0

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Charles Yao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/24/05, *Charles Yao* <yaocharlesc at gmail.com 
> <mailto:yaocharlesc at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 
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>     On 10/24/05, *David* < david at kenpro.com.au
>     <mailto:david at kenpro.com.au>> wrote:
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>         On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:32:18PM +0800, Charles Yao wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  Ive been having problems with openoffice 2.0. It keeps telling
>         me that there
>>  is an error everytime i launch it. I have uninstalled and
>         reinstalled it 3x
>>  and its still the same.
>>  I just recently uninstalled openoffice 2.0 beta. I dont know
>         if that has an
>>  effect on the installation. The beta files are still in my
>         hard disk. I have
>>  been trying to get rid of it but it will not allow me to delete.
>>
>>  Charles
> 
>         I think apt-get on the command line has a --purge option. From my
>         recollection, this removes lots of subsidiary or non-empty files and
>         directories normally left behind by deleting packages. Don't
>         take my word
>         for it though. I would hate to be the cause of you doing
>         something bad :-)
>         Hopefully somebody else will know what they are talking about !
> 
>         You can also use the --simulate option to figure out what
>         apt-get is
>         doing. This is a good option because it actually does nothing
>         but tell
>         you what it would have done had it done something.
> 
>         I'm not sure if all these options are available in synaptic
>         because I'm
>         a CLI junkie.
> 
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> 
> 
>     hi David,
> 
>     I tried it but it doesnt work. I'm really having a hard time
>     understanding what is causing it to fail.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Charles
> 
> 
> 
> Just to add to what i already posted. I dont know whats causing OOo2 to 
> crash but its permanently stuck at document recovery and it just keeps 
> ding that everytime i start it. I have deleted and reinstalled all OOo2 
> components but it still happens
> 
> Charles
> 
Why don't you try removing/renaming the ~/.openoffice directory. As this 
has all the settings for openoffice, including info about documents that 
were open when there was crash. I am not entirely sure as I am still 
using hoary and OOo1.1.3. Its worth a try though.