Bug#266810: openoffice.org: language modules not there

[Miek Gieben <miekg@atoom.net>]

[On 19 Aug, @17:11, Chris wrote in "Re: Bug#266810: openoffice.org ..."]
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 15:24, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > by tickmark you mean the little 'abc' icon?
> > 
> > I'm not seeing it... :(
> 
> OK, so OOo isn't picking the information up from dictionary.lst.

I kept I log of what I did, see below. Short story: it didn't work.

I'm thinking about using a tgz from oo.org and see if that help.s

> missing files or permissions.  Please try the following:

miekg@colalight:~$ rm -rf .openoffice/ .sversionrc 
miekg@colalight:~$ openoffice  
OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
running openoffice.org setup...

<starting up>
<opening writer>
<searching for icon>

not there :(

miekg@colalight:~$ su
Password: 

## openoffice 
colalight:/home/miekg# apt-get remove  openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files 
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 182MB disk space will be freed.

## myspell
colalight:/home/miekg# apt-get remove myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us myspell-uk   libmyspell3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libenchant1 libmyspell3 myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us myspell-uk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 2814kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

colalight:/home/miekg# apt-get clean

## dpkg --purge <all-apt-get-removed-packages>

## REINSTALL
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmyspell3 openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en

prelink: yes

<back to my user account>
miekg@colalight:~$ rm -rf .openoffice/ .sversionrc 

<still not there, but that prob. because I also removed the myspell stuff>

# apt-get install myspell-en-gb

<purging my files again>

$miekg@colalight:~$ openoffice 

still not there!