On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:52:35 +1300 Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > This question can up a little while ago on this list and I admit that > it took me a little while to find a mirror that could be used to > download old versions. It used to be easier (when people could select > their own mirrors) but that confused more people that it helped. > > What I did find was the this mirror hosted the necessary files, and > looking at it again, I see that there is a 2.0.4 linux version which > can be downloaded. I'm not 100% sure that its the closest mirror to > you geographically speaking but trust that it will do: > http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/stable/2.0.4/?fl=
Paul and NoOp, Thanks for your replies. For some reason my post requesting a site to download 2.0.4 took several days to appear. In the meantime I did find 64-bit .debs for 2.1, and I installed it. But it was a mess, so I uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled 2.0.4 from Synaptic, but after doing so stuff that was working in 2.0.4 became broken and I was worse off than before. It took me hours of work, but I finally managed to remove all traces of 2.0.4 and 2.1. It seems that apt-get remove --purge does not do a very good job, nor does "remove completely" in Synaptic. They left hundreds of old files all over my hard disk. I am now back to a stable 2.0.4 that is working fine except that my original problems with it are not fixed. That is, drag and drop editing of text is still broken and some of the settings in Tools > Options are not being saved in the default template. Otherwise, everything is working pefectly. I filed a bug report with OOo about the drag and drop editing of text, but one of the developers closed the issue without even reading what I said. Since it is closed, no one can now add any comments to it. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74478 But I did that before trying 2.1. During my brief interlude with 2.1 I discovered that drag and drop editing of text and the problems with settings in Tools > Options not being saved to the default template were still broken. Therefore, I concluded that the problem is with Ubuntu Edgy amd64, not OOo. Besides, there are not many of us who have been bitten by this bug, and all of us are on Edgy amd64. Therefore, I filed a bug report with Edgy: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org-amd64/+bug/85248 That is where things are at the moment. I am going to just live with the drag and drop of text not working. I could try to find the 64-bit .debs of 2.0.2 and install them, but I am tired of messing with it for now. I have homework due Monday and finals are looming, so I don't want to risk going through OpenOffice hell again for a while. Thanks to all who helped, and if I find anything further I will report back to the list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
