Re: Problems with installation of OpenOffice 3.0

[Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> writes:

>>> Openoffice offers a package for Debian that contains all the
>>> necessary debs. You can get it by making your choice here:
>>>
>>> http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
>>>
>>> I've installed Openoffice3 using this package (after uninstalling
>>> the default Openoffice packages on my lenny system), and everything
>>> seems to be working fine.

Anyone is with oo 3 from experimental , I suppose it is fine?

Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> writes:

> It depends on your version: if you're running 64 bit Debian then use the 64
> bit OOo.

How can I know if I'm running 64 bit Debian?

just run "uname -r"

> Don't forget that you need to completely remove any previous
> version(s): I did this via Synaptic with an "uninstall completely" operation
> for all the packages with openoffice in them.

Can you report the exact syntax to do that?

From command line:
aptitude purge ~nopenoffice.org

Regards