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I cannot get openoffice.org3 -calc to start in Fedora 10

I have loaded a laptop with Fedora 10. I have just installed openoffice.org3. I had to run the following command to get open office to work due to a shared library....

ln -s /usr/lib/openoffice.org/ure ure-link

So, now openoffice runs EXCEPT for calc.

When I try to run "openoffice.org3 -calc", it will show the OOo splash screen and then it disappears. I have tried logging in as root as well. Same thing only I will also see the following error...

GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/desktop/gnome/interface': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

Then, I have to [Ctrl-C] to end the script.

Any ideas?

rindi

How did you install OpenOffice? Isn't it already included in FC10?

hmccoder

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Nope, not already included. Had to download it from the openoffice.org web site.

rindi

It should be included I've checked the fedora core 10 repository, it's there. You might not have installed it originally, depending on what you selected there. Anyway, you should always install things first via yum, or via the graphical install software interface (Add/Remove Software under "System", "Administration" if you are using gnome for your GUI). That takes care of all dependencies etc. I'd try reinstalling it that way. Also if you install things through the packet manager it'll take care of updates etc.

hmccoder

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I couldn't find 'Openoffice" in the repository, just each individual part of openoffice. I tried installing the spreadsheet module and it stopped on me with an error about a file being used by two things at once.

rindi

If such an error comes up you should note which other app uses that module, then uninstall that other app if it isn't necessary or a wrong version.

hmccoder

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What it conflicts with is the other openoffice apps.

I can't seem to figure out what to tell yum to get it to uninstall all openoffice apps and then reinstall them. It's not "yum remove openoffice" or "yum remove openoffice.org" This feels like a total newbie problem but it is confusing me. I'd like to just uninstall openoffice and reinstall the whole thing using yum, but I don't know how.

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hmccoder

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Yeah, I successfully uninstalled the old openoffice using it's uninstall script. "yum install openoffice" tells me "No package openoffice available" which is why I thought it did not come with FC10 and downloaded the software and screwed things up in the first place. :)

rindi

You can always visit the fedora-core repository pages, there you can see what the software names are that are available. Once you know those you can use yum to install that software. On redhat based systems like fedora-core or CentOS I usually install yumex, which is a GUI front-end to yum. There you can easily search for software, select what you want to install, and install it. If there are errors during installation it tells you where that happened and what the error was, and then with that info it is usually possible to find a work-around to get the software installed.

hmccoder

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I wanted to install openoffice the correct way last week, using yum. But "yum install openoffice" did nothing. So I downloaded openoffice from openoffice.org and installed it using its own install script. This screwed everything up. Finally, yesterday, I found out that you can't just "yum install openoffice" - you have to install each of its components separately. Using the GUI software installer (System->Administration->Add/Remove Software) I installed each individual component. Now it seems to work.

rindi

I found there is a module that installs most of OpenOffice (at least if your using KDE, not sure if Gnome has something similar). In the KDE section there is an "ooogs2", which is the OpenOffice quick starter for KDE.