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Feisty openoffice issue

Asked by TehBeyond

None of the OpenOffice programs work after a brand-new installation of Feisty. Here is an example of an error message...(they all generate the same error,)

me@thecomp:~$ oowriter

** (process:11628): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...

The startup splash-type screen for OpenOffice 2.2 shows up, but once the progress bar fills, the program crashes. Any help would be useful. I am running the 64bit edition of Feisty, if that helps at all...

Thanks in advance,
-TehBeyond

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Best TehBeyond (tehbeyond) said : 		#1

I was able to fix this issue by reinstalling all openoffice.org packages in Synaptic, and then installing the package from the OpenOffice.org website.

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Romulo R3 (romulo-rosa) said : 		#2

Hello TehBeyond,

which package from openoffice,org website have you installed?

Thx

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TehBeyond (tehbeyond) said : 		#3

The package is the Linux general one... you can get it from the 'Continue Download' link on this page...

http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.0/contribute.html?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxintelwjre&lang=en-US&version=2.2.0

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DBMarquardt (dbmarquardt) said : 		#4

I got the same issue with my Feisty Openoffice.
I was able to fix just entering the Synaptic Package Manager, searching "openoffice.org" looking in "Name". Then I ordered the list by the first column and marked all of the installed packages to reinstall. It downloaded about 90MB.
I didn't download new installation files from the OpenOffice web site.

Thanks TehBeyond!

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xtsbdu3reyrbrmroezob (xtsbdu3reyrbrmroezob) said : 		#5

Here's a nice one-liner that did the job for me...

$ aptitude search openoffice.org~i | while read line; do sudo aptitude reinstall `echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`; done
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Kristian Hermansen