David Williams wrote:
Thanks - that got me back with a working OO, but I still can't print as an ordinary user. The print command is the usual lpr thingy, just like all other programs. Time to join the OO mailing list, I suppose - this is too esoteric for me!On Saturday 24 December 2022 09:40 am, robin wrote:After migrating to another box, I found OO would open for all users but only root could print (see previous post). After trying various remedies unsuccessfully (deleting ~/.openoffice, rerunning setup, trying with a brand new user etc.) I uninstalled the OO rpms and reinstalled it. My reward for trying this Windows-like approach is that now, whether as root or a normal user, OO starts to open, gets as far as the splash screen, then crashes. Running setup produces a slew of error messages saying it can't copy various files in /usr/lib/openoffice/user to ~/.openoffice . (this is using the RPMs that come with 9.0, BTW - funny thing is that they worked fine on the original box). Has anyone had a similar experience? Searching the OO archives didn't produce anything useful. Sir Robin
THe only similarity that I had was OO started to do the same thing to me as the second half of your description above. However, I cleaned out anything that I could find that looked like OO stuff and then reinstalled. That cured my problem.
The annoting thing is that I hardly ever use OO for anything I need to print - I use LyX as my main writing tool, and OO for spreadsheets and to read Word documents people send me, but having something similar to Word on the office Linux box is part of my "hearts and minds" campaign. To misquote the current US slogan in Iran, "Think of Tux as a friend".
Sir Robin
--
"Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it."
- Linus Torvalds
Robin Turner
IDMYO,
Bilkent University
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
