This is the second time open office broke and won’t start.
The last time this happened I used the update feature in the yast software manager to fix it.
Now I can’t fix it at all.
Writer,calc and Impress all start to start up and then exit.
As much as I hate microsofts monopolizing and want to use openoffice, I cannot because it is not reliable.
It is buggy and aggravating.
I want to someday not need windows in a vmware window, but it looks like that will come no time soon.
>:(
Since this problem isn’t ubiquitous I’m guessing somehow you installed a buggy package from an unstable repository.
Add the openoffice community repository with yast. Then go to software manager, select patterns in the filter list and update all openoffice packages. If this doesn’t fix it the problem might lie with a package deeper down the dependency tree.
Start it from a terminal to see any errors that are output.
Or you could simply uninstall it and then re-install it.
…one of Microsoft’s contributions to everyday computer use ;).
Bets are you have some OOffice repo added!
bperrotta wrote:
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> This is the second time open office broke and won’t start.
> The last time this happened I used the update feature in the yast
> software manager to fix it.
> Now I can’t fix it at all.
> Writer,calc and Impress all start to start up and then exit.
> As much as I hate microsofts monopolizing and want to use openoffice, I
> cannot because it is not reliable.
> It is buggy and aggravating.
> I want to someday not need windows in a vmware window, but it looks
> like that will come no time soon.
>
>>:(
>
>
Humm, not sure what’s up with the OOo setup there it works for me both at
work and home. However, if you’re fed up with OOo and don’t want to keep
windows around just for MS Office you could try KOffice.
kev.
bperrotta wrote:
> This is the second time open office broke and won’t start.
Try launching from konsole or gnome-terminal to see if you can get any clue
about the error.
hpc02@stthpc:~> oowriter
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
Lotus Symphony has received some favourable reviews as well. I didn’t get along with it especially well myself, but it’s worth a shot if you’re struggling.
Note that you have to register to download.
Open office utterly sucks. ;ast I remember I switched to all packman repositories.
I just totally removed all open office rpms did a fresh install.
it worked for 15 minutes then stopped again.>:(
Maybe I can try running it as root. amarok i run as root from /usr/bin
otherwise it has problems. Where are the open office programs located, what directory?
Don’t run it as root. Run it from the console (type oowriter), as suggested above, and see what error messages come out, and maybe you can fix it.
[Also, run ‘zypper lr’ and paste the results here]
zypper lr as a regular users afterward? exact syntax? “zypper lr” ?
zypper lr
As regular user is ok.
the results from zypper lr are below
–±-------------------±----------------------±--------±-------
1 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes
2 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes
4 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes
bperrotta@Suse11-Home:~>
They all open from commandline but impress refuses to open a powerpoint presentation if i direct it to one.
>:(
Well they open but they are useless because they cannot open any msoffice documents like they used to.
if i try the programs exit>:(
The entire point of running it from the terminal, as stated several times above, was to see if there are any error messages.
…?
[Also, when you reinstalled it, presumably you did through YaST, not from source, or finding your own RPMs or anything?]
You can use MSoffice 2007 if you want. Just install crossover 8 for linux and then install office 2007. It does work really well and now supports sp1 and sp2. Atleat that what I did. Just an option though…
Crossover 8 canI do an rpm search for that and install it?
no, crossover is not free but its all over the internet if you look hard enough. There is a 30 day trial.
so it is an rpm .
I can install it by rpm -i crossover-pro-8.0.0-1.i386.rpm ?
Yea it comes in a bunch of different formats. One is rpm and another that would work is a .sh file so you could just do a “sh filename.sh” or “rpm -i filename.rpm”.
Another option that is free if you have a Windows disc and MSOffice is
Install Virtual Box and run winders in that:
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