Serious OO/Debian problem...

[Madison Kelly]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
>> For about two weeks now I have had this problem with 
>> OpenOffice2.0.[2|3] where as soon as I enter any data into a cell and 
>> try to save OO crashes. I have tried doing complete purges of OO 
>> (including deleting my ~/.openoffice directory), searching and 
>> deleting every file of the system I could find related to it, changing 
>> versions (2.0.2 to 2.0.3), installing from the Debian testing 
>> repository...
>>
>> Last night my efforts even messed up my OS and I had to do a complete 
>> re-install but still I can't get the damn program to save. This is 
>> causing more than a little stress and Googling doesn't seem to point 
>> to anything. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Files which I created three weeks ago in OO also die when I try to 
>> save edits. I installed from by converting the OpenOffice RPMS to DEB 
>> packages using 'alien' from the stable repos. I would happily try 
>> compiling from source if I could figure out how...
> 
> Oh, what about your java version? Try downloading the 1.5 java runtime 
> environment (jre) from:
> http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp
> 
> Install it as per their instructions, then run the following:
> "update-alternatives --config java" and then choose the 3rd option which 
> should be your newly installed JRE. I've had lots of trouble with the 
> 1.4 that installd by default on Debian and Ubuntu. I think that this 
> should do the trick...
> 
> Jamon (again)

When I posted that I had no java installed (same as before when it 
worked). I followed the link and am installing the source package now. I 
also re-downloaded and recreated the debs from alien under my new Debian 
install, *just in case* and I'll report back once it's all done.

Thanks!

Madison
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