[KLUG Members] OpenOffice 2.3 update

[Tony Mattas]

I know the 2.2 icon would have disappeared because 2.3 is an upgrade to 
2.2, so RPM (be damned) would have removed 2.2 before installing 2.3.

What version of gnome are you running, they made some changes to that in 
the recent  (2.14 Onwards i think) with how the menu's are stored in the 
system, I remember a painful upgrade I had on Gentoo due to that, and a 
long long night of emerge -e.

bill wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:02, Tony Mattas wrote:
>   
>> I believe you actually have to use on of RH's RPM's on RH to get it to 
>> show up in the list. Oo is mainly a Java application for all desktops, 
>> not just gnome, so its not always intelligent on where to install to.
>>     
>
> could be, but
>
> 1. Didn't have to do that for 2.2
>    - installing the 2.2 desktop-integration RPM worked fine for gnome
>
> 2. 2.2 no longer worked once 2.3 was installed
>    - the desktop-integration for 2.3 didn't add anything to the menu
>    - even the 2.2 shortcuts were gone
>
>
>   
>> bill wrote:
>>     
>>> Just a FYI
>>>
>>> An attempted upgrade to Open Office 2.3 hosed my OO installation.  I
>>> thought those who haven't updated to 2.3 yet might want to hear a
>>> warning.
>>>
>>> I have had Open Office installed on one machine since version 1.0 (an
>>> old RedHat 9 box).  
>>>
>>> I updated to OO 2.2 some time back.
>>>
>>> While running 2.2, it notified me that a new version, 2.3 was available.
>>>
>>> So, I went ahead and let it download the new version.
>>>
>>> The new version came with a neat script called "setup" which was
>>> executable.  So, I ran that.
>>>
>>> After it was done, not only did I not have 2.3, I didn't have 2.2 at all
>>> either.
>>>
>>> All the options for Open Office 2.x in the start menu in Gnome were gone
>>> too.
>>>
>>> The only Open Office I could get to run was a very old 1.0.
>>>
>>> Yikes!
>>>
>>> I tried several reboots and re-installs.  Nothing worked.
>>>
>>> I uninstalled 2.3 and found the old RPMS for 2.2 and re-installed those,
>>> as well as the desktop-integration rpm.
>>>
>>> Now, I'm back where I started with 2.2 working, just several hours
>>> poorer, and leery of trying 2.3 again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> kind regards,
>>>
>>> bill
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