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rekcuts

Member

Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 4

Can't Install Open Office

Error installing open office with pacman

sudo pacman -S openoffice-base
Password:

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: curl-7.18.0-1  hunspell-1.2.1-2  libwpd-0.8.13-1  libogg-1.1.3-1  
         flac-1.2.1-1  libsndfile-1.0.17-2  xalan-java-2.7.0-2  
         hsqldb-java-1.8.0.9-1  neon-0.27.2-1  libxmi-1.2-1  plotutils-2.5-1  
         gd-2.0.35-1  ghostscript-8.62-1  glproto-1.4.9-1  mesa-7.0.3rc1-1  
         fltk-1.1.7-3  openexr-1.4.0a-2  imagemagick-6.3.8.0-2  
         pstoedit-3.45-1  openoffice-base-2.4.0-0.3  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   153.00 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
checking for file conflicts...
error: could not prepare transaction
mesa: /usr/include/GL/gl.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glext.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glx.h exists in filesystem
mesa: /usr/include/GL/glxext.h exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Is my nvidia driver causing open office to not be able to install?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Can't Install Open Office

what does:
pacman -Qo /usr/include/GL/gl.h
gives you?

If you use the nvidia driver, use the pacman package in the repo instead of the nvidia installation app. That might be the cause of this problem.

rekcuts

Member

Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 4

Re: Can't Install Open Office

Right on the money Snowman. By installing with the Nvidia installer, pacman couldn't access the necessary libs. I did a clean install (only thing i had working was wifi and nvidia so not a big deal) and used pacman to install my nvidia drivers.

Thanks for the tip.