<div>On 10/24/05, Charles Yao <<a href="mailto:yaocharlesc@gmail.com">yaocharlesc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <div>On 10/24/05, David <<a href="mailto:david@kenpro.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> david@kenpro.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> </div> 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 </blockquote></div> 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