On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:02:40AM +0200, Rafael Osuna wrote: > Hi, > > Some time ago I removed OpenOffice and I deleted the > /etc/openoffice directory that had not been deleted with the "apt-get remove" > command. > > Now, I have installed OpenOffice again without problems ("apt-get install > openoffice.org" using Debian Sid). I have not got any installation error buy > when I try to execute any of the programs in the suite I get the following > error: > > root@host:~# oocalc > openoffice.org: Damnit! I can't find OpenOffice's user files. Did you break > the /etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf file manually ? > This file should contain DESTINATIONPATH Okay, if you delete 'conffiles' by hand, Debian's dpkg and apt tools will not default to replacing them when you (re-)install the packages. It is assumed that you deleted the files for good reason. In to order to replace them, I suggest you run the following command for both the openoffice.org and openoffice.org-debian-files packages which you should find in /var/cache/apt/archives dpkg -i --force-confmiss <file> So, I might run: dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.3-2+1_all.deb dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org_1.0.3-2_all.deb This should fix your openoffice.org installation. In future, to remove such files from (say) /etc, you should either use the --purge option to apt, or do dpkg -P or an already uninstalled package. You can see what package owns the files by running dpkg -S /etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf (for example). Regards, Paul Cupis -- paul@cupis.co.uk
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