Subject: openoffice.org: Bad instructions in the README.Debian file
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.3-9
Severity: normal
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When I type "openoffice" it says
OpenOffice.org for Debian - see
/usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
running openoffice.org setup...
setup failed (code 0).. abort
---- Please read /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz for
known problems -----
But the information in the README.Debian file is no help at all. For
example it says to try :
cd /usr/lib/openoffice/program; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. strace ./setup.bin
2>&1 |grep -i "open(.*ttf" | tail
But this command is not accepted, it says:
Ambiguous output redirect.
Then it says "If you are using NFS mounted file systems" without saying
how we can tell whether we're using NFS or not, nor what NFS stands for.
Then it says:
"You may be able to provide us with information about the crash by
producing a core dump. Make sure you are in a directory where you have
write
permission, and execute this:
ulimit -c 10000; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin -R:/etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf"
But this does not work either, the answer is:
"ulimit: Command not found.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program: Command not found."
Then it goes on about "S3", "Matrox", "nVivia" cards, again
without saying how to check what type of card may or may not
be installed on the machine. Etc...
It may sound like I'm complaining about peanuts to you, but look,
if I was an advanced user I would know how to fix this without
even reading the help file, wouldn't I?
In troubleshooting options it would really be nice to see "try this"
options which will do what they are supposed to do when they are
pasted onto the konsole. And pasted "as stated", I can't adapt these
commands, I don't understand them. "open(.*ttf" looks like it has
a missing closing bracket to me.
So it's a bug in the documentation, OK, not in the code, but it is
preventing me from running OO all the same.
Thank you for reading this.
Mary
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.6-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.25.12 Common utilities for
spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-9 OpenOffice.org office suite
binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.3-8+1 Debian specific parts of
OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.3-9 English (US) language
package for
ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.3-9 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii xml-core 0.09 XML infrastructure and XML
catalog
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