On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Benton Greene wrote:
Hi,
I have an intel based macbook pro and I've tried to install
openoffice. But when I do, I get a message that says I must have
X11 in order to run OpenOffice. So, I downloaded a package and
tried to install X11. It told me I couldn't install because there
is newer software on my computer already. So first I looked for
this newer software that was supposed to already be installed and
couldn't find it. Then I got my install disk out and installed X11
from there. I had no problems installing, but when it was
finished, I looked for the icon in Applications/Utilities and it
wasn't there. I also tried to open OpenOffice and it came back
with the same message that X11 wasn't installed.
Then I recently read an email on this list that said you had to use
Spotlight to find the old file, then delete it before X11 would
work. So I typed "X11" in Spotlight and it didn't find any
executable files, just the pdfs and install packages I had downloaded.
Has anyone solved this particular problem, and if so, how did you
do it?
Benton, my problem was almost exactly like yours: "tried to install
openoffice. But when I do, I get a message that says I must have X11
in order to run OpenOffice. So, I downloaded a package and tried to
install X11. It told me I couldn't install because there is newer
software on my computer already." I went through that sequence
exactly. At that point, I could not find X11 in my Utilities folder,
but Spotlight found it, and I dragged it from there to the trash.
Then I couldn't install X11 from my install disk because I still got
an error message saying that I already had a newer version of X11
installed.
It turned out that I had to *empty* the trash -- I found this out in
the appendix of the long, complete version of the OOo 2.x Setup
Guide, which can be downloaded from http://
documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html - scroll down
to "Setup Guides for OpenOffice.org 2.x," choose your language, and
download the PDF file. Look in the table of contents for Mac
installation and for the Mac OS X Extras in Appendix A. This document
is more complete that the mini and short How-To setup guides that are
easier to find on the site.
Since your system let you install X11 from your disk (without getting
rid of the "newer" version, wherever that phantom hides), but then
didn't put it in your utilities folder, I'm not sure what happened.
If you can't figure it out from the complete Setup Guide, someone
with more expertise can probably help.
Fran
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
