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tony

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Registered: 2004-10-11

Posts: 108

Open Office not working

After installing Open Office I wanted to use its writer but it didn't start than I've tried all other applications impress, calc, etc. non of them started is there some explanation, help something what I can do? Thanks 

murkus

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From: Europe/Helsinki

Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 254

Re: Open Office not working

After installing Open Office I wanted to use its writer but it didn't start than I've tried all other applications impress, calc, etc. non of them started is there some explanation, help something what I can do? Thanks 

Did you just do

pacman -Sy openoffice

if so, you have to run as user:

 /opt/openoffice/setup

.murkus

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tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,322

Re: Open Office not working

i think you forgot to install a language package
try pacman -S openoffice-[yourlanghere] then it should work
the package divided up in two packages one core called openoffice-base
and one lang pack that you have to install additional

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: Open Office not working

i think you forgot to install a language package
try pacman -S openoffice-[yourlanghere] then it should work
the package divided up in two packages one core called openoffice-base
and one lang pack that you have to install additional

is this fact documented anywhere?  when one installs OOo base does one get the warning to install a language package?

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tony

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Registered: 2004-10-11

Posts: 108

Re: Open Office not working

Thanks its working   but my language package was missing so I must have installed english one.
By the way during the install it asked me about java runtime environment but it seems to be missing I tried to use "mozilla-java"  :oops: but it didn't work. Is there some sollution for that?
And one more question off topic mozilla-firefox is trying to download and install some critical updates but it is not able to every time it takes more than 15 to 20 minutes than I got tired of it and canceled that what should I do?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Open Office not working

By the way during the install it asked me about java runtime environment but it seems to be missing I tried to use "mozilla-java"  :oops: but it didn't work. Is there some sollution for that?

You can use Sun's java runtime environment

pacman -S j2re

And one more question off topic mozilla-firefox is trying to download and install some critical updates but it is not able to every time it takes more than 15 to 20 minutes than I got tired of it and canceled that what should I do?

If you know the URL, you can use wget to download the files:

pacman -S wget

and then

wget -c URL

tony

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Registered: 2004-10-11

Posts: 108

Re: Open Office not working

Thank you for your quick response. Now it works