oldefoxx
May 10th, 2009, 04:17 AM
I had a dickens of a time trying to upgrade to OpenOffice 3.1.0 from 2.4.0 in Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04). Every time I tried to run the downloaded tar.gz package with the Update manager, I got errors, so many that the whole thing just died. I did find one posting that I followed that used the command line approach, and that worked. But part of that was to first run Synaptic Package Manager, and using OpenOffice as a Search key, take all checked items and mark them for complete removal. That might have been overkill, but what do I know?
Anyway, it finally worked and I got it in there using sudo dpkg -i *.deb in two subfolders set up by the unpacking of the gz file. The first was called DEBS, and the secnd was a subfolder of that subfolder. Just search on related terms, and you can find similar efforts.
The problem was, or is, is that I lost FireFox in the process. Just a gapped area on the top toolbar. I was able to get that reinatalled using Synaptic Package Manager and giving it the term FireFox to search on.
But the other problem is that under Applications, I somehow lost the last item, which was called Add/Remove ...
I tried using the System/Preferences/Main Menu to see if I could gext it back, but I did not see anything that looked related to it. I tried searching on the key terms, and found something like 250 posts with those terms in other context. I don't know what to try to add back to the Menu selections because I don't know what was there before. Trying to restore the Default settings seems to make no difference.
I figure someone out there is far enough ahead at this game that they know what was done and what needs undoing, or what needs doing over, in order to get The Add/Remove ... option back.
Interesting how different OpenOffice 3.1.0 looks under Applications than the 2.4.0 version did. They do say that you can keep both on your system and use either, but as I am just getting to the point of using OpenOffice, I did not see that as being necessary or desireable. But from what I read online, you do not have the option to simply upgrade from on release of OpenOffice to another. You pretty much have to go through the full uninstall process, then install again from scratch, but this time designate 3.1.0 to replace what you had before.
Anyway, it finally worked and I got it in there using sudo dpkg -i *.deb in two subfolders set up by the unpacking of the gz file. The first was called DEBS, and the secnd was a subfolder of that subfolder. Just search on related terms, and you can find similar efforts.
The problem was, or is, is that I lost FireFox in the process. Just a gapped area on the top toolbar. I was able to get that reinatalled using Synaptic Package Manager and giving it the term FireFox to search on.
But the other problem is that under Applications, I somehow lost the last item, which was called Add/Remove ...
I tried using the System/Preferences/Main Menu to see if I could gext it back, but I did not see anything that looked related to it. I tried searching on the key terms, and found something like 250 posts with those terms in other context. I don't know what to try to add back to the Menu selections because I don't know what was there before. Trying to restore the Default settings seems to make no difference.
I figure someone out there is far enough ahead at this game that they know what was done and what needs undoing, or what needs doing over, in order to get The Add/Remove ... option back.
Interesting how different OpenOffice 3.1.0 looks under Applications than the 2.4.0 version did. They do say that you can keep both on your system and use either, but as I am just getting to the point of using OpenOffice, I did not see that as being necessary or desireable. But from what I read online, you do not have the option to simply upgrade from on release of OpenOffice to another. You pretty much have to go through the full uninstall process, then install again from scratch, but this time designate 3.1.0 to replace what you had before.