2008/11/14 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 11/13/2008 02:26 PM, M Henri Day wrote: > > >> > >> 1. What extensions do you have installed? > > > > > > I've checked under «Tools» → «Extensions» and not found any installed > > extensions. Am I missing something ? > > Apparently if OOo is prompting you for and Extension update. But what is > causing it is a mystery to me if you have no extensions installed. > Perhaps it is the &@^%#$ default dictionaries that OOo 3.0 seem > determined to install as root. You can remove those stupid things, but > you must run as superuser/root to do it: > > sudo /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice > > That will open as superuser/root and then you can click on > Tools|Extension Manager and just remove them. Note: I use the English > one, but after removing via root, I then reinstall as a user so I don't > have to worry about it any further.
Even if I open as superuser/root, I still find no extensions when I look in «Tools» → «Extensions» («Verktyg» → «Tillägg»), not even the English, French, Spanish dictionaries, which, according to Larry are installed by default. Of sheer necessity, I happen to have a lot of dictionaries installed, but all in Ubuntu Intrepid ; I have not installed any in OOo.... > >> 2. What do you have set for your default browser? > >> System|Preferences|Preferred Applications > > > > > > I previously had the Swiftweasel command installed, but when I started > > receiving these messages, I changed to Firefox to see if that would > resolve > > the problem. It did not. > > Perhaps try logging out and then back in will work. Have done so - no joy.... > Thanks, Gary, for your speedy response ! I've noticed that the latest OOo > 3.0 version from the download pages seems to be 3.0.0-18 ; would you suggest > that I try to install that (not the simplest process in the world, given > that I'm running an AMD 64 X machine) ? Before writing to the forum I tried > to resolve my problem by installing the LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz > package after uninstalling my present setup, but the resulting package > didn't work. I suspect that the Swedish package does not contain all the > requisite packages and that it must be installed on top of a > LinuxX86-64_install_en_US_deb.tar.gz package. Are am I barking up the wrong > tree ?... >Well, if you really want to go to the edge you can try the 3.1 dev: >http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1461<http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1461> >[Note: I've not tried this myself yet...] I'll pass on this one for the moment, but if and when you try it, I'd love to hear about the results !... >I'm not sure where you are getting 3.0.0-18 from, perhaps that is a >64bit thing. OOo 3.0 32bit is 3.0.0-9. They probably found it clever to >double the 9 for 18 given that 64 is double 32. The denomination «3.0.0-18» is what I saw in Synaptic after installing the localised version «LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz» (which, as I wrote above, didn't work).... >LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz is a localized version: >http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/localized/sv/3.0.0/<http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/localized/sv/3.0.0/> >so I guess you'd need to check on the Swedish list to see if others are >having problems with that package. I'd recommend putting the original US >version back in - it is buildid=300m9(Build:9358) on 32 bit - you can >check your version from a terminal by: >cat /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc Luckily, after uninstalling the «300m9» packages for both the en_US and sv versions, I retained them in the trash, and thus was able to reinstall them after my failure with a new download, but before initiating this thread. This is what I see after running the check above in a terminal : [Version] AllLanguages=en-US buildid=300m9(Build:9358) ExtensionUpdateURL= http://updateext.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update OOOBaseVersion=3.0 ProductBuildid=9358 ProductMajor=300 ProductMinor=9 ProductPatch= ProductSource=OOO300 UpdateID=OpenOffice.org_3_en-US UpdateURL= http://update30.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update?pkgfmt=deb UpdateUserAgent=<PRODUCT> (${buildid}; ${_OS}; ${_ARCH}; BundledLanguages=${AllLanguages})
