opensuse 10.2 & openoffice 30.0

linuxjohan · #1 (**permalink**) 07-Nov-2009, 04:06

hey boys 'nd girls,
on a server that has opensuse 10.2 and openoffice 2.0,
i installed Oo3.1 from the Oo site, by tar.gz file.
i thought the new version would install over the old version.
In the end both the old AND new version or on the machine, with
the new one not opening. When clicking on the new icons, it goes
up and down for a while, that's it. No error message. Version 2.0
opens normal.
i'm hesitant at removing the old version,the employees working on
the server could be without openoffice.
i didn't think two versions could be on one machine.
thanks for any help
linuxjohan

Dwarfer99 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-Nov-2009, 04:38

openoffice 30.0??

I think I must have missed a couple of updates

linuxjohan · #3 (**permalink**) 07-Nov-2009, 04:47

Ok Dwarfer, thanks for pointing out the typo...solution as wel?

Knurpht · #4 (**permalink**) 07-Nov-2009, 14:47

Here's a bit of a problem. 10.2 is no longer supported, so if you uninstall OO.o you might not be able to reinstall through openSUSE rpms.
Some way the versions must be biting each other. Where did the 3.0 version install itself? From what you write it looks like the programs don't start at all.
Please open a terminal window, invoke the command below and post output here:

su -c 'find / -name oowriter -print'
(enter root password when prompted for)

This way we can find out where both instances of Writer are located.

malcolmlewis · #5 (**permalink**) 07-Nov-2009, 15:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knurpht

Here's a bit of a problem. 10.2 is no longer supported, so if you
uninstall OO.o you might not be able to reinstall through openSUSE rpms.

Some way the versions must be biting each other. Where did the 3.0
version install itself? From what you write it looks like the programs
don't start at all.
Please open a terminal window, invoke the command below and post output
here:

su -c 'find / -name oowriter -print'
(enter root password when prompted for)

This way we can find out where both instances of Writer are located.

Hi
There are still rpm's, iso's and updates here;
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/

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Jonathan_R · #6 (**permalink**) 07-Nov-2009, 15:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knurpht

Here's a bit of a problem. 10.2 is no longer supported, so if you uninstall OO.o you might not be able to reinstall through openSUSE rpms.
Some way the versions must be biting each other. Where did the 3.0 version install itself? From what you write it looks like the programs don't start at all.
Please open a terminal window, invoke the command below and post output here:

su -c 'find / -name oowriter -print'
(enter root password when prompted for)

This way we can find out where both instances of Writer are located.

To go along with this, a few other things may help.

Code:

which oowriter

On my system (11.1) it shows that it's in /usr/bin/
Another way would be with rpm.

Code:

rpm -qa | grep oo* | more

Ofcourse you can feel free to change the oo* as you need.
The Parts of an RPM Query

linuxjohan · #7 (**permalink**) 08-Nov-2009, 02:13

thanks for the replies.
output is this:
# su -c 'find / -name oowriter -print'
/usr/bin/oowriter
this is version 2.0
Tussenhuis:/usr/bin # cat ooffice
#!/bin/sh
export OOO_EXTRA_ARG=''
/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/ooqstart "$@"

i have version 3 in /opt
:/opt # ls
gnome ltsp openoffice.org openvpn-2.0.9-92.1.x86_64.rpm
kde3 ltsp-4.2 openoffice.org3
Tussenhuis:/opt # cd openoffice.org3
Tussenhuis:/opt/openoffice.org3 # ls
LICENSE README THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html licenses readmes
LICENSE.html README.html basis-link program share

:/opt/openoffice.org3 # cd program
Tussenhuis:/opt/openoffice.org3/program # ls
about.bmp intro.bmp sbase soffice.bin unopkg
bootstraprc libnpsoplugin.so scalc sofficerc unopkg.bin
crash_report python setuprc spadmin versionrc
crash_report.bin redirectrc simpress swriter
fundamentalrc resource soffice unoinfo

so i think i have both versions, and i have both 2.0 and 3.0
launchers.

Jonathan_R · #8 (**permalink**) 08-Nov-2009, 02:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxjohan

thanks for the replies.
output is this:
# su -c 'find / -name oowriter -print'
/usr/bin/oowriter
this is version 2.0
Tussenhuis:/usr/bin # cat ooffice
#!/bin/sh
export OOO_EXTRA_ARG=''
/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/ooqstart "$@"

i have version 3 in /opt
:/opt # ls
gnome ltsp openoffice.org openvpn-2.0.9-92.1.x86_64.rpm
kde3 ltsp-4.2 openoffice.org3
Tussenhuis:/opt # cd openoffice.org3
Tussenhuis:/opt/openoffice.org3 # ls
LICENSE README THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html licenses readmes
LICENSE.html README.html basis-link program share

:/opt/openoffice.org3 # cd program
Tussenhuis:/opt/openoffice.org3/program # ls
about.bmp intro.bmp sbase soffice.bin unopkg
bootstraprc libnpsoplugin.so scalc sofficerc unopkg.bin
crash_report python setuprc spadmin versionrc
crash_report.bin redirectrc simpress swriter
fundamentalrc resource soffice unoinfo

so i think i have both versions, and i have both 2.0 and 3.0
launchers.

You do. So add an option in your menu for that. Right click on the start button and select edit menu, then find Office. From there you'll need to add each of the openoffice parts to there respective submenus. The command to launch oowrite for version 3 should be in /opt. More than likely /opt/openoffice.org3/yada/yada.