Fail on updating or removing Openoffice 2.4

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Hello… I’m at my wits end here.:’( I’m one step away from “rm -Rf” and deleting Openoffice 2.4 wherever I can find it on sda1.

I have a relatively fresh install of openSuse 11.0 x86_64 with Gnome. I ran into trouble with a system update to Openoffice 2.4. I was going to install 3.0 sooner or later, but decided to update 2.4 anyway. The update failed with various errors similar to below…

[size=]Prpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from db->close: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery[/size]

I have tried updating and then eventually removing all Openoffice packages I could find. Some packages uninstalled with Yast, but the base Openoffice_org pkg remains. I get the panic error in any package manager I try. I’ve tried yast, smart, zypper… both from gnome and from a terminal session… no luck.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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You don’t need to remove 2 to install 3

Do this in a terminal as su:

zypper refresh

rpmdb --rebuilddb

Now open Yast software management and install OOffice
finish

Now add this repo:
Index of /repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0

In Yast software management
filter by repo
update all in the newly added repo for OOffice

You now have OO 3