[KLUG Members] OpenOffice 2.3 update

[Brock Inglehart]

Thanks Bill, as an untrained user:

1	I would have fallen in to that trap blindly

2	I wouldn't have had a clue what to do.

Now I know. Don't go there.

Brock

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:08 -0400, 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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