OpenOffice.org
21-Oct-03
For those who care, I finally got OpenOffice.org working, using X11 (instead of OroborX) on Trinity last night.
How?
I had to search out and delete all instances of libfreetype.6.0. Since updatedb doesn’t exist on the *nix side of Mac OS X, and since the Find function doesn’t work on *nix files, I had to search for these manually. I found them, though I can’t remember now where (I think they were in the X11R6 directory).
To delete libfreetype.6.0, I had to be superuser. But su isn’t a command in Mac OS X, sudo is. And there was no help file or information on how to use sudo– I had to figure it out on my own, based on the syntax help provided when I gave it a bad command. Basically, you type sudo and the command (in this case, rm libfreetype.6.0.dyram or whatever the file extension is, and it prompts you for the admin password– on a single-user machine, this is the default user’s password).
I deleted the file and all pointers to it, and tried re-installing OpenOffice.org. This worked, finally, but when I went to start the program, it said my xversions.rc (? I think) file was wrong and I needed to setup OOo again. I tried that, but it wanted the setup CD-ROM, which, having downloaded the .dmg file from the internet, I didn’t have.
So, I cancelled out of that, deleted the offending older file, and started OOo again. This time, it worked perfectly and I am now able to use the program as desired.
Yay!
[I'll go back tonight and edit this to show the actual paths and files, in case anyone ever needs this information in the future.. like me, if I screw it up again.]
Oh, and I did paint two plates on Sunday, the geocaching one and a piano keys one. They should be home on Thursday, since that’s the earliest John will be able to pick them up.