[K12OSN] Impress oo.o 2 files not saving

[Graham]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 08:46, Krsnendu dasa wrote:

Hi
Apologies if this doubles up, my previous got stuck in a moderator queue 
because I used the wrong email to send it. 

> Files saved to home directories are causing crashes. Files saved to
> /home/students seem okay (All students are members of the student group).
> Permissions problem? Why would it cause the whole program to crash?
>
> I think upgrading OpenOffice.org might help. I sent a separate message
> asking about the recommended (safe) way to upgrade.

Upgrading is always a good idea, to 2.04 especially, 2.04 does extensions and 
I think has dual monitor support for impress (Not sure about that, but 2.1, 
which I use, definitely does.)  The safest way is to download OOo from 
downloads.openoffice.org. Uninstall 2.02 then install 2.04. 

If you are using a distro modified version and update from a YUM repository or 
via apt-get, then you need to change shortcuts to executables. Versions 
sourced from OOo downloads  install into the /opt directory, for some reason 
some distros change this.  They also change the executables. for instance 
Mandrake,  SuSE and I think RedHat use "ooowriter".  The same in OOo sourced 
version is "swriter". 
>
> It is really frustrating, because now the classroom teacher (Principal) is
> complaining, "Impress is not a good program we should just use Powerpoint
> yada yada..."
> He is used to Powerpoint and he is finding the different way Impress works
> frustrating already, without crashes adding to the bad feeling.
>
> On 24/11/06, Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That doesn't seem to be the problem. OO.o Impress seems to crash all the
> > time for no good reason. Especially when saving or closing documents.
> >
> > I thought if I update OO.o from version 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 that might help.
> > How do I do that without updating other programs?


OOo is a monolithic code base. Unlike MSO, it is not separate programes,  it 
is one.  That's why you can open any application from any file menu,  so 
there is no way of upgrading parts of it.  Some distributions have tried 
doing bitza updates to there own versions but that is applying proprietary 
software norms to Open Source.  With proprietary software upgrades are things 
that happen between major releases.  With OOo there are no upgrades just new 
releases every month or two 

User settings in the /home/~username/.openoffice.org2 will remain intact.  
However some distros use a different home directory 
like /home/~username/.ooo-2.0 or similar. 
An OOo sourced install will create a  /home/~username/.openoffice.org2 
directory, (without affecting the other) as soon as a user launches the 
programme.  This starts the whole new user registration thing which can be 
somewhat annoying and cause a little trepidation amongst newbies, but as long 
as they're prepared for it, it shouldn't be an issue.  However in your case 
it will prove if the problem is in the user directiories or settings if 
you're using a non-OOo sourced version

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