updating an openoffice installation?
 

I'm using mdk 10 and i'd like to update my openoffice installation from 1.1 to 1.1.2. when i type ./setup -net , it says it can't update cuz it's a different language version. (i'm using english). it then allows me to install to a new directory. how can i fix this, as i think both versions are english. if i can't update, then how do i do a clean install so that icons are created for the programs? thanks.

Has OO 1.1 been installed by MDK?
Are you trying to install from the original
tarball from oo.org? Because the installation
program for that one is install, not setup.
Setup you only need to run per user once
install is done ...


Cheers,
Tink

i just downloaded the file OOo_1.1.2_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz. is there another one i should ahve installed?

That would be the same one I'm using ...



Cheers,
Tink

so i did the following:

1. i uncompressed the gz file and opened up a terminal window from within /home/username/openoffice-temp/ (<---terminal window is this directory)
2. typed in ./install (it unpacked a bunch of files w/in the terminal to /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.2
3. still within the /home/username/openoffice-temp/ window, i typed ./setup . this installs it to /root/OpenOffice

4. I click on the old openoffice writer icon and it opens up v 1.1.0 rather than 1.1.2. i couldn't access the /root/ files so i dunno where to get the new program links.

any ideas?

:scratch:

After the
./install
you
cd /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.2
and
./setup from there ...


Cheers,
Tink

I just did all that, but this is what i get when i run ./setup

S01060050bac00e61:/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.2 # ./setup
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

cannot connect to X server
S01060050bac00e61:/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.2 #


I am on SuSE 9.1.

Thanks


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