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Set up Open Office to run smoothly after reinstall

Asked by AndreyPutilov

When I did the system upgrade up to 10.04, I had a message, that some Open Office register files are corrupted, and I need to check services/components (*.rdb), /var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb, extension files, /var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache. Then a few times Open Office crashed, and I decided to reinstall it with all the setting files. Now I have some problems:

I have a pretty big part of interface in english, when my system language is russian. It is not a problem to understand, but it is a bad design, a mess.

I don`t have QuickStart icon in the tray area, it is uncomfortable. And there is no setting to turn QuickStart on.

I have a Human theme in Ubuntu, and, before ooo reinstall, in ooo also. Now ooo looks awful, It has giant icons, awful icons, it has awful gray-violet color, and so on. How to return the Human theme to ooo?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run:

cd ~; ls -a

You will see the hidden folders which hold the config for your apps, including openoffice. If you rename the openoffice folder then rerun it you will get vanilla settings.

If you click Tools -> Options ,you can turn on the quicklaunch there, it's not really needed to make openoffice ru, just loads the core libraries so it starts faster, nothing more

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

> interface in english, when my system language is russian

While removing OpenOffice maybe some language packages disappeard.
Try:
System Administration -> Language Support
Ususally by just opening it will look if you need to install missing packages and request so.

This will give you an overview which packages are installed.
dpkg -l openoffice.org* | grep ii |less

e.g.
openoffice.org-gnome
openoffice.org-gtk
openoffice.org-l10n-common
openoffice.org-l10n-ru
openoffice.org-style-human

besides the basics as writer, math and so on ...
openoffice.org-base-core
openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-common

Also take a look if ubuntu-desktop is still there and update the system.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

User registry files are in:
user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/

So you can test by moving the files while OpenOffice is closed and restart it afterwards.

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AndreyPutilov (anputilov) said : 		#3

Thanx, Sam

I have done all the advices.

All went as you said, language support asked me to install missing packages, mentioned openoffice packages were missing, I`ve updated the whole system.

Now I have OpenOffice with nice human theme and with russian interface. QuickStart I didn`t find.

I have a Firefox browser also with russian interface, but the whole system is in english, all menus and Gnome utilities. Language support all the time is saying, that "language-support-input-ru" is missing. I click "install", but nothing happens. I tried to install this as a package via apt-get, but this doesn`t work

andrey@andrey-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install language-support-input-ru
[sudo] password for andrey:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package language-support-input-ru is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package language-support-input-ru has no installation candidate

In Language support I move russian language at the top, but changes are not saved, and every time I run Language support, english is at the top.

I`ve run the "Computer janitor", and removed some packs, but it didn`t help.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

> I`ve run the "Computer janitor"

Huh, I'd rather use Synaptic or terminal (apt-get) where you get more informative feedback.

about QuickStarter
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=30951

about language-support-ru ;-)
$ LANG=C aptitude show language-pack-ru
Package: language-pack-ru
State: not installed ## of course not because local is german, I know only До свидания (do svidaniya)
Version: 1:10.04+20100714
Priority: optional
Section: translations
Maintainer: Language pack maintainers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 36.9k
Depends: language-pack-ru-base (>= 1:10.04+20100714)
PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.10.27ubuntu1)
Replaces: language-pack-gnome-ru (< 1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-gnome-ru-base (<
          1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-kde-ru (< 1:10.04+20100714),
          language-pack-kde-ru-base (< 1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-ru (<
          1:10.04+20100714), language-pack-ru-base
Description: translation updates for language Russian
 Translation data updates for all supported packages for: Russian

 language-pack-ru-base provides the bulk of translation data and is updated only seldom. This
 package provides frequent translation updates.

 Please note that you should install language-support-ru to get full support for this language.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

language-support-ru is a metapackage, when it's installed Ubuntu knows what's missing and you'll win it all.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#6

FYI, just a site note regarding package removal (see my last comment).
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+question/127385

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AndreyPutilov (anputilov) said : 		#7

Thank you very much, Sam. The problem with OpenOffice is solved, and I am going to close the question.

I`ll work on the language-referred packages problem.
if this went wrong, I would open a new question.
Thanx once more time!

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AndreyPutilov (anputilov) said : 		#8

Thanks Sam, that solved my question.