On 12/17/2008 12:29 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:32:56 -0800 > NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> dijo: > >> On 12/17/2008 12:33 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> > I'm about to give up. >> [snip] >> > >> > Note that this is an additional install of 3.0. It is not an upgrade >> > replacing 2.4.1. OOo 2.4.1 is still installed, and I dare not uninstall >> > it considering the instability and bugs in 3.0. >> > >> > I'd be happy to hear any suggestions. >> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-openoffice-3.0.0-on-ubuntu-8.04 >> >> Note: >> <quote> >> This guide shows how you can install the new OpenOffice 3.0.0 office >> suite on your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Your current OpenOffice installation >> will not be removed unless you uninstall it with Synaptic or on the >> command line, so you can run both versions in parallel if you like. >> </quote> >> >> Don't uninstall 2.4.1. After "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" skip directly to >> "2 Creating A Launcher". The instructions before that are only if you >> have uninstalled (U)OOo. >> >> Note that there are 2 pages of instructions. > > Those are the instructions I followed in order to install OOo 3.0, > leaving 2.4.1 installed as well. The dpkg command executed without > error, except that no launch entries were created. But those were easy > to create manually. > > I think some of my problems are due to the fact that I have been > launching Writer directly without launching the splash screen first. > > Other problems may be due to the fact that you cannot install the Gnome > desktop integration package unless you uninstall 2.4.1. > > Lately I have been starting it with the splash screen first, then > Writer, but it still crashes hourly. When I restart it sometimes it > cannot even recover the document. That is, if I tell it to recover the > document it just crashes trying to recover it. > > I'm beginning to see why Ubuntu creates an Ubuntuized version before > they put it in the repositories.
I've not had a single crash w/3.0 or 3.0.1(dev)... yet, once I reinstalled with a clean /opt. I _did_ experience crashes and other odd bits when I first installed and failed to completely remove/purge my old /opt dev installs. Perhaps I've been lucky as I have the following installed on this machine (32bit Hardy) and they all work pretty well for me so far: (Ubuntu)OOo 2.4.1 OOo 2.4.2 OOo 3.0 OOo 3.0.1 (dev) StarOffice 8/11 and SO 9 (beta) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
