Open Office Upgrade

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 17:20, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Your words of appreciation are noted....

 Hi Kevin,

 Sorry for my rude tone, it was uncalled for and wasn't what I had
intended. As to your questions:

> Did you by chance  ...
> 
> - forget to upgrade glibc on a YDL 2.3 system?

 No, I'm running a fully up to date YDL 3.0 without anything special.

> - forget to read the README_first?

 It was a while ago since I last tried (a couple of weeks), but I
definitely remember reading the docs both before and after install
attepmts. I do remember cutting and pasting the instructions from the
README.

> - forget to file a bug report at OOo Issuzezilla?

 That I haven't done yet.

> - forget to ask for help here?

 Asked for help on this list and all the feedback I got was that people
were having the same problem. Nobody reported a successful install.

> - forget to send me a stack trace of your error?

 No crash/stack trace needed. The install refused to accept any JRE. If
I tried to proceed without one, OO was completely non-functional (this
is not a huge surprise).

> - forget to make sure you do not have corrupted fonts?

This is not a font issue. 1.0.2 is working fine (other than the lack of
cut and paste).

Anyway, after all that, I just tried installing again but a bit
differently this time.

This time, I didn't uninstall the 1.0 RPM (in fact it was running while
I performed the install), and when I selected the install type I did the
minimal one (smallest fingerprint). I wasn't even asked to select my JRE
and it seemed to have just worked(TM). I haven't tried much with it, I'm
just shocked that it is working. 

 So, does this mean that we should not removed the 1.0 RPM? If so, this
is definitely not in the docs. 

 The advantage of an RPM would be that the KDE menu items would now
point to the new version rather than 1.0. How difficult is it to build
an RPM? I imagine it was the Terra Soft folks who built the RPM for YDL?

 Anyway, sorry again for my tone, and I'll let you know how this install
works.

Cheers,

Chris