On Wednesday 17 March 2004 18:17, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 18.03.2004 schrieb Kent Loobey um 02:32: > > So, I made the mistake of clicking on "OpenOffice.org Writer Word > > processor" in root and now when ever I click on it in the a user title > > bar it tries to install OpenOffice again in my user area and gives me the > > following message: > > > > "An error occurred while copying the file libgcc_s.so.1 to > > home/kent/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program." > > > > So, I was able to find a copy of this file in /lib. I copied it. The > > next error I received was: > > > > "An error occurred while copying the file sopatchlevel.sh to > > /home/kent/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program." > > > > I did a search and this file is not on my computer. So what is going on > > here? I can "su" into root and run oowriter and it works fine. > > > > This is not a good deal because 1) I shouldn't have to create documents > > in root and 2) This kind of install problem shouldn't occur. > > If you would not loose personal data and/or important settings just > remove ~/.openoffice directory. For security you may do this as root > with "mv /home/kent/.openoffice /root". When the install fails it ask if I want to remove it from my user account. I do so it is clear from my user account. Hmm, I did a search on openoffice and it turns out that there were four files left in residual. I removed them and now OO.org works fine. Thanks. > > Btw., why is your OO path ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 and not ~/.openoffice? > Don't you run the OO which comes with FC1? It is as it came off of the CDs. > > Alexander
