[NTLUG:Discuss] Openoffice /opensuse help

[John Fields]

Fred,

FYI: openSUSE uses the go-oo code base (or vice-versa) so you won't be
gaining anything from switching.
Now if you want to UPGRADE to a newer version than what came with your
distro...

1) Uninstall go-oo
2) Add the OpenOffice backports repo from the list of "community"
sources in Yast
3) select OpenOffice (nothing else, just the main title package)
  Note that the available version should be higher than what you started
with
4) Install that puppy.
 
Let us know how it goes. :)
John Fields

discuss-request at ntlug.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Openoffice /opensuse help
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> HELP please
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> I decided to be really smart and remove the installed openoffice 3.2 and 
> replace it with Go-oo on my opensuse 11.2 system. BIG MISTAKE 
> and now I cannot get it to work. When I call swriter from the CLI I get:
>
> /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice: line 95:  7669 Bus error               
> "$sd_prog/../basis-link/program/pagein" -L"$sd_prog/../basis-link/program" 
> ${sd_pagein_args}
>
> /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice: line 127:  7672 Bus error               
> "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"
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> I haven't a clue as to what that means, except that there is something
> probably missing in the re-install. Maybe a library but I don't know which.
>
> Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Fred
>