openoffice upgrade problem

kafnir · 03-30-2006, 12:11 AM

would anyone please help me solve this problem.
I am using Centos4.3
I just download openoffice-2.0.2.tar.gz and the installation goes very well. when I click openoffice , it still says version 1.0.1 instead of version 2.0.2 that I just install.
can anyone please tell me howto fix it

thank you

Simon Bridge · 03-30-2006, 02:03 AM

Sounds like OO.o 1.0.1 is installed to a different place to OOo 2.0.2 ... before installing 2.0.2 you needed to have uninstalled 1.0.1

It would help if you told us which exact package you attempted to install. The tarball typically has several (or are you installing from source?)

This sort of thing is not uncommon when you are doing such a radical upgrade.

dracolich · 03-30-2006, 07:15 AM

OOo 2.x installs into a OpenOffice2.0 directory. Your older versin is probably in OpenOffice or OpenOffice1.0.1 and your icons are still linked to it instead of the new one. As already mentioned you should uninstall the old version. After that you might have to adjust your icons/menus to link to the new version.

Michael_aust · 03-30-2006, 08:16 AM

openopffice 2 will have installted into /opt

sleekmason · 04-01-2006, 08:48 AM

I tried this but it doesnt want to do it. Is this correct ? or was something left out?
I get "no such file or directory"

(3) Now you will need to navigate to your folder with the .gz file in it using the change directory command (cd)
cd path_to_the_00o_Linuxintel_install.tar.gz file

Simon Bridge · 04-01-2006, 09:09 PM

sleekmason I'm sorry, what have you tried exactly?

You downloaded the OOo tarball, then, following step 3 quoted in your post you did the following

Code:

[~]$ cd path_to_the_00o_Linuxintel_install.tar.gz file

... and got an error to the effect that this directory dosn't exist?

If so, this is not surprising.

I guess you could try:

Code:

[~]# mkdir path_to_the_00o_Linuxintel_install.tar.gz

... then move the tarball you downloaded into that directory (just drag it across the windows or use the mv command...) then try again. <rolls eyes>

OR: cd into the directory where you put the tarball!