Ubuntu OpenOffice broken?

[Avraham Hanadari]

David Symons wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:26 +0300, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> 
>>David Symons wrote:
>>
>>>http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-October/012520.html
>>
>>Thanks for the suggestion. I went to the archives, but I was unable to 
>>find a full OpenOffice download. Must I download all of the components 
>>separately, or have I misread the file names? What must I download, and 
>>then, how do I install the deb file?
>>
>>Forgive my ignorance, but I am really a newbie.
>>
>>Please explain about uninstalling the current version before the upgrade 
>>you suggested.
> 
> 
> Hi Avraham,
> 
> No need to remove the old package or work with the deb files.  Let
> Synaptic works its magic for you:
> 
> 1. Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager).
> 2. From the Settings menu choose Repositories.
> 3. Click on the "Add" button then on the "Custom" button.
> 4. Paste in the whole deb... line from that post as the "APT line":
>       deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/OOo2 ./
> 5. Click on "Add Channel" then "Close".
> 6. If it doesn't automatically download the updated package information
> then hit the "Reload" button.
> 7. Search for the openoffice.org2 package.  Hopefully it's icon will
> indicate that it's upgradeable (ie. has a star).
> 8. Right-click, select "Mark for Upgrade". Various related packages
> should be listed to upgrade with it.  Click "Mark".
> 9. Click Apply.
> 10. Enjoy your updated OOo2. :)
> 
> Cheers, Dave.

Well, Dave, it didn't happen quite the way I expected. When the 
accompanying packages list appeared, it was 9 out of 16. There were 
still starred packages which had not been marked. Nevertheless, I 
clicked Apply, assuming the system knew what it was doing. What emerged 
was a hyper-pixelated monster that reminded me of a cubist rendering of 
an OO GUI. It also froze the system. Eventually I did a  restart and 
chose recovery mode. Then I noticed the top panel announcements about 
available upgrades, which turned out to be OO. I chose that and now I 
have a clean 201, but Wizard for dictionary installation still does not 
work and the Hebrew spelling correction still produces rectangles.

Avraham