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Installed Apache_Open Office 4.1: won't run

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August 18, 2014 8:34:40 AM

Gents:

Running GNOME-flashback/UBUNTU_14.04 on XEON/MSI/24G ram.

I dloaded and installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.1 from source.forge using a reputable(?) CLI script. LibreOffice was purged. Excepting typos the APACHE install process went smoothly ... all intermediate dir/files checked OKey; I was confident ... and all A_OO programs finally appear on my GNOME_Metacity menu. But, no A_OO program runs!

When I *click* on an A_OO menu item I get a taskbar message: "starting open office" which message remains for a few seconds then vanishes. A program never starts and no error message is presented. To repeat -- the A_OO 4.1 programs appear to be installed, show on the GNOME menu, tickle a taskbar response, but in-the-end fail to run.

Has anyone had -- and solved this issue before ? Can it be trivial ?? Any clue appreciated, before I eat-humble-pie and return to Cannonical Libre_Office. Googling does give many examples of failed linux A_OO installs, but the issues appear to be insolvable at the casual_usr_level. The A_OO documentation itself says some scripts may need to be modified in GNOME environs. At that usrland horror I RUN I do not walk in the opposite direction.

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August 18, 2014 9:14:03 AM

Open the console and start from the command line (do NOT use root). Any errors will appear there.
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August 18, 2014 10:42:07 PM

MY responding post seems to have been lost. I tried entering "openoffice4" on CLI, and got multi-lines of drool for my efort. The problem turned out to be NOSCRIPT ... I forgot to give temp permission for the DLoad from APACHE ... and so got a corrupted file from source.forge. All's well now with A_OO-4.1 humming along.

ex_bubblehead said:
Open the console and start from the command line (do NOT use root). Any errors will appear there.


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