Uninstalling a broken Staroffice 6.0 install
Impatient readers can skip to the last line of this message.
In my ongoing quest for a non-MS word-processing package that can handle such
mundane issues as image placement, page numbers, and browser-like navigation, I
dragged a Staroffice 6.0 CD out of storage and installed it on a legacy W98SE
box. That's not the source of my problem.
I then got greedy (wouldn't it be nice to have the same application running on
both the legacy Win98SE box and my debian (sarge) box). I noticed that there
was an uninformative message about "glibc ver: 2.3.2" in my Terminal window
just after I started the install as root. The install went OK until I tried to
install the Java Runtime Environment apparently highly desired by the Install
engine. That failed ... I pressed on. Once the Staroffice install seemed to
be finished, I restarted the 'puter and attempted actually to run Staroffice.
The installation process started again, trying to load about a hundred files of
the form, libctl641li.so, libimpreg.so, libdbi641li.so ... I chose "ignore" for
the first 40 or so, but I grew weary of writing down their names for later
retrieval, and clicked "cancel" for the next 60. Eventually, Install seemed
happy, so I restarted the "puter yet again, only to be faced with a similar
re-run of the installation engine, except that this time it wanted to
incorporate various address lists (of which I keep none of which I know). I
picked one, and the installation process promptly froze. I remembered that
libmozab2.so was among the files that couldn't be found, so I aborted this
final installation attempt.
After Googling both the Sun and debian sites as well as the 'Net in general, I
have decided to throw in the towel and be satisfied with a Win99SE version of
Staroffice 6.0. Sun gives me until some time in 2010 to get it installed
correctly, so I might manage to get used to it by then.
My question is: How do I uninstall the Staroffice mess from sarge?
Thanks,
George Langford
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