Openoffice 3 fails to start after upgrade

[NoOp]

On 04/30/2009 09:17 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:48:31 +0300
> David Harel <hareldvd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Ubuntu 8 I installed openoffice3 manually (download
>> openoffice3..deb and install it).
>> Upgrade to Ubuntu 9 I discovered the "computer Janitor" and I tried
>> to start it.
>> After removing everything recommended I discovered it removed the 
>> openoffice installation. I tried to installing openoffice3 once again 
>> (using synaptic I installed openoffice.org, openoffice.org3, 
>> ooobasic3.0-writer, ooobasic3.0-draw...) and now I get: "The
>> application cannot be started. iso resource could not be loaded by
>> SfxApplication" error message.
>> 
>> Any idea?
>> 
> 
> Did you check the version already installed by ubuntu 9.04? I show it
> to be 3.0.1 already. Perhaps trying to install it has confused your
> system?
> 

Computer-janitor has to be the most potentially destructive default
applications that I've run accross in Ubuntu. I don't think it was/is
ready for production yet...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/computer-janitor
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/computer-janitor/+bug/285746>
[System cleaner removes explicitly installed third-party packages]

@David: 9.10 comes with the Ubuntu'ized version of OOo 3.0.1 - meaning
that you get gstreamer sound & video, etc. You might want to give it a
spin.

  Regarding your manually installed OOo; you will need to reinstall.
However if you plan to do that, I recommend installing OOo 3.1.0rc2
(OOO310_m11) which is now available for download at:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/index.html
  http://download.openoffice.org/next/other.html#rc
It will install in /opt/openoffice.org3 and will not interfere with
OOo(U)3.0.1 - you can run both in parallel.
3.1.0rc2 is, hopefully, the last rc before final release. So it contains
quite a few bug fixes since OOo (standard) 3.0.1, see:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.1.0rc2.html