chown -R username.users .openoffice.org2
Well, I've managed to get it to run, although I don't understand why this worked. Anyway, I happened to notice that oo2 does run as root. I investigated root's home dir and noticed that there was a .openoffice.org1.9.104 directory in it, whereas my user's home directory had no ~/.openoffice* directories.
So I ended up copying that .openoffice.org1.9.104 directory to my user's home directory, set the user as owner, and lo and behold, it worked.
/me shrugs
ok, i had the same problem. installed openoffice2 with pacman then got j2re error message. the installed j2re and tried to run "soffice" and always got message "internal error" even after forcing reinstall.
here is what i think happened. after install you didn't start is this way:
"/opt/openoffice/program/soffice" as described in the wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenOffice
i think the java run time things is coz after you start it the first time they link you to their website to take a survey or somehting.
so what i did is remove the directory
~/.openoffice.org2
and then restarted open office with
/opt/openoffice/program/soffice
as regular user. and everything worked out fine.
]]>So I ended up copying that .openoffice.org1.9.104 directory to my user's home directory, set the user as owner, and lo and behold, it worked.
/me shrugs
]]>pacman -Sf openoffice-base
What else can I try to fix this, aside from a complete arch reinstall? I sorely need oo2 working again
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