How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something that makes subsequent install runs think there's an installation

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:43:51PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:43:51PM -0800, paul beard wrote: Does anyone know what file the installer might be finding that prevents it from reinstalling? I am giving up the FreeBSD package and trying the linux version, but whatever I deleted when cleaning up the old install left something

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Look for a file called .install_done in the appropriate work directory under the port you want to remove. If you see it.. delete it. I didn't use the port: that never worked for me. So I have tried the FreeBSD tarball/installer and the linux variant. Neither are quite

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
Scott Robbins wrote: In the home directory---there's an openoffice.bin or perhaps soffice.bin or even .openoffice.bin, something like that--the file that's most likely causing you trouble though is something .sversionrc in the home directory. Go to the head of the class: that was it. The