On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:06, Austin Godber wrote:
> Frank Mandato wrote:
> > I have been following this list for quite a while and would like to
> > know if I have to start from scratch, clean install, or if I can just
> > switch over to Fedora without too many problems.
>
> Hi Frank,
> I have done an upgrade from RH 8.0 to Fedora on my main home machine. It does
> lots of things, MySQL, apache, Entertainment center (TV Video Card, play DVDs),
> vmware .... lots of stuff. After the upgrade (which was performed with the
> Fedora install CDs upgrade option) most everything worked still. However, there
> have been small naggy things and I am eager to find the time to do a clean
> install. One of the most annoying things is the OpenOffice problems ... it is a
> lot less stable now, I don't know if its the Fedora build I have been using or
> something else. I can reliable crash OO by clicking on the font dropdown menu
> in Write ... and lots of Word Files and other OO files crash it upon opening.
> In general I find it discouraging. As this machine is primarily a desktop that
> is a problem. It was the first upgrade I had done in years ... and went
> smoothly ... but the end result was less than desireable and I won't be
> perfoming an upgrade again.
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it seems that the real fix is to delete each users /home/.openoffice
directory (rm -fr ~/.openofice)
preferences (minimal) will be rebuilt and it will run well - that is
because of changes in openoffice
Craig
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