Wed Mar 17 20:41:24 EET 2010
Problem with OpenOffice after upgrade on Debian Sid Testing/Unstable - (openoffice.org: Component manager is not available.)
A few days ago I did an upgrade using apt-get which upgraded my openoffice to 3.2.04 on my Desktop machine (a notebook running Debian Sid - Testing/Unstable). Since then I haven't started the openoffice, however today an ex-college colleague of mine (Burcu), drop by home to give her some help about a project. In that relation I had to open a .doc file. I launched my oowriter in an attempt to open the document without success a stupid error poped up saying something is wrong with some kind of Openoffice registry and most importantly claiming the following error:openoffice.org: Component manager is not available.
First thing I tried in order to resolve the issue was simply moving my ~/.openoffice.org/ and ~/.openoffice-org2/ directories to ~/.openoffice.org-bak/ and respectively ~/.openoffice.org2:
hipo@noah:~$ mv ~/.openoffice.org/
~/.openoffice.org-bak/
hipo@noah:~$ mv ~/.openoffice.org2/
~/.openoffice.org2-bak/
Regrettably I realized this this approach failed when I launched the oowriter to regenerate it's working directories.
Therefore I executed another strategy
to fix the
issue completely reinstalling the openoffice with apt:hipo@noah:~# apt-get install --reinstall
openoffice.org-core
After a while, now all is back to normal with my Openoffice
Though it's a real lose of time implying such a dumb workarounds, I
always hated linux as a desktop platform just because of misbehaves
like that.