Re: cannot get working OpenOffice under Sarge :-(
On Friday 03 September 2004 06:53 am, Richard Palfalvi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed Sarge/testing on my
> Fujitsu-Siemens-Amilo-Laptop a few days ago which runs in principle
> very fine.
>
> I am using WindowMaker instead of KDE as my default Windowmanager and
> I like it much.
>
> But I cannot get running the delivered Deb-OpenOffice1.1.2 properly.
> Starting it from the applications-menu or from the command-line
> doesn't matter:
>
> OPenOffice always starts, shows its starting-screen and then hangs
> up.
>
> I always have to kill it by command-line or ksystemguard-tool.
>
> For the first sessions after installation I was using KDE and there I
> was able to start it properly.
>
> I deinstalled it with the apt-get-command and installed manually the
> downloaded OpenOffice-1.1.2.tar-gz.file from the OpenOffice.org-site.
> In this case I can start it but got an error-message when trying to
> save under the .sxw-format (using a .doc-file).
>
> Anyway I would like to use the deb-file instead, also because I like
> much more the new KDE-style of OO-1.1.2 with the new icons in the
> tool-bars .....
>
> What's going wrong here?
>
> Any hints very appreciated.
>
> thx. yours sinc. Richard
I would use aptitude or dselect to install, and to 'purge' the install.
I use Testing & windowmaker and haven't had any issues, and I use OO
quite a bit.
--
Greg C. Madden
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