Installing openoffice.org-voikko: unopkg fails if OO.o is running

[Ville-Pekka Vainio]

Caolan McNamara wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:48 +0200, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> > I just happened to test installing this package while having OO.o Writer
> > running and the unopkg installation fails. It's
> > running '/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/unopkg
> > add --shared %{_libdir}/voikko.uno.pkg
> > -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1 || :' and it fails with:
> > "You need to close the already opened Extension Manager to continue.
> >
> > ERROR: Lock file indicates that a concurrent Office process is running!
> >
> > unopkg failed.
>
> Hmm, I can't get this to happen here with F9 or F8 OOo. I wonder (though
> I tried this as well without reproducing the problem) if you had writer
> running as root ? I can't think of any other scenario with a shared
> lockfile.

With a bit more testing, I figured it out. I usually use sudo with yum. 
Apparently that causes unopkg to fail, since both oowriter and yum are run as 
my regular user, yum just has superuser privileges.

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Ville-Pekka Vainio