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openoffice can't start after updated to 2.2.0-1ubuntu5

Asked by Hei

I have update the open office by update manager.
However, after update, I cannot start open office neither
menu nor command line.
/usr/bin/openoffice is linked to /usr/bin/ooo-wrapper
However ooo-wrapper is missing
if I use ooffice
ooffice
*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x080cef98 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
...
** (process:32568): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...
also in soffice

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Try to remove and reinstall OpenOffice may solve...
sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall openoffice.org

HTH

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Hei (punch-hei) said : 		#2

I have try the commands, but still not working
also, I have try to remove all openoffice packages
(openoffice.org-common, openoffice.org-core, openoffice.org-gnome ... etc)
download it again and re-install openoffice.
However, the problem still there.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Try to purge openoffice can you help you...
sudo apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org
then try to reinstall
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
Then try to start openoffice by commnd line from terminal
openoffice
oowriter
to view some error or warning startup messages.

If don't work this is my list of packages relation to openoffice try to purge then reinstall them:

apt-get --purge remove o3read openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-hyphenation openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-l10n-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-us openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-style-industrial openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-thesaurus-it openoffice.org-writer python-uno

apt-get install o3read openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-hyphenation openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-l10n-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-us openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-style-industrial openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-thesaurus-it openoffice.org-writer python-uno

HTH

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