OpenOffice update problem

Peter Hillier-Brook phb at hbsys.plus.com
Wed Feb 24 17:09:57 UTC 2010


Hallo Jim,

On 24/02/2010 16:20, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Running Ubuntu 9.1 and the OO 3.1 that came with it. Update manager just
> popped up with an update to OO.  It downloaded and started to install
> then stopped with a message that OO was running and must be shutdown to
> proceed. I didn't have OO running and looking at it's options
> Quickstarter is not checked.  Looking at running processes with the
> System Monitor I don't see any reference to OO or Quickstarter.
>
> It refuses to complete the update and says I have a broken package.  I
> used the Snynaptic Package Manager to fix the broken package but still
> can't finish the update because it thinks OO is running. What do I need
> to do to fix this?

As the version of OO.o supplied with Ubuntu is the Novell fork, go.oo, 
it may be worth checking running processes for that variant. It's just a 
guess, but that's where I would start if I used that version. Personally 
I prefer the "vanilla" version from OpenOffice.org.

Peter HB




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