Through my own stupidity I've managed to turn a minor irritation into a
major disaster!
I've been following the "OO 2.0 - Error Message" thread as I shared the
same problem. I picked up from it the suggestion that an answer might be
to un-install and then reinstall. The log of the disaster that brought
on me runs like this:
1. On my PCLinuxOS OOo2.0 was installed in /opt. I used the Krusader
File-manager in Root mode (first mistake - I should have used File
manager super-user mode) and deleted the folder.
2. Message flashed up saying there were some files left in OOo
folder, did I want to delete these? There didn't seem to be any
dire warnings associated, so I clicked "yes". That was the second
(and extremely major) mistake.
3. I then attempted to reinstall 2.0 from the un-packed folder from
the Konsole . Everything seemed to go OK, except that when it
finished it had a list of files that it said were already
installed, which puzzled me.
4. I then attempted to find where the program was, but without success.
5. I then saw that Synaptic had included 2.0 in its latest
depository, so I thought I would try to install it again from there.
6. There seemed no problem with the installation process, however, I
still could not find the program anywhere, in spite of a file
search. Not only that, but OOo 1.1.5 had also disappeared
(presumably because Synaptic was supposedly upgrading it to 2.0)
7. A file search revealed that /opt now does indeed now have
openoffice.org2.0, and that contains the directory "program", but
when that is opened, all that is there is intro.bmp, presumably
the flash screen, and absolutely nothing else. There is also a
hidden file in the home directory,
/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice. The only
other 2.0 items I can find are the original tar.gz download, and
the unpacked directory. There are various things from 1.1.4
(thankfully I still have that in a separate folder, so I can at
least use OOo, (though not of course from files saved in the new
format). There are also odd bits an pieces from the old 1.1.9
betas (though don't know which one or more of them - they'd all
been deleted as far as I knew)
It's plain to me I've made some fundamental errors: who can rescue me?????
Brian B.
