Well as luck would have it I got the system up and fully running without Open
Office. Then I tried to reinstall Open Office.
Simply stated there is something major with Mandrake LE's Open Office RPMs.
Open Office simply will not install that way.
Frank
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:05 pm, SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Sob Story
> For some stupid reason or the other I decided several months ago to install
> additional programs. Not bad but I was in the office where the computer
> connects to the net by wireless. So far so good but the installation of an
> additional program resulted in Mandrake grabbing the latest files off the
> net instead and doing a partial update. Now we are talking big time upgrade
> issues if these programs are KDE and the were. Anyway that broke KDE
> partly. Not enough to fix. Mow Mandrake has had a number of issues through
> the years with laptops and being to able to connect to the net via more
> than one method. My lap top will connect via modem, rathernet, or wireless.
> It also has infrared capabilities too. So wanting to transfer file from one
> box to another I set up the mode connection. Now we have big time problems
> as when I got to work the wireless network refused to work. So I decided
> the siplest thing to do to fix the problem would be to upgrade to Mandrake
> LE. Yes it is still called Mandrake on the disks. A method which usually
> solves that problem. I could have upgraded to 10.1 but I had upgraded one
> of my desktops to LE the night before by simply placing the first disk then
> the second disk and then the third disk in, sleeping between times and I
> was finished. Knowing laptops I should have known better but I did anyway.
> Well disk one went OK and disk two followed but 90% through disk three the
> box froze. Why who knows but an Hour later it was still froze. Noe with 90%
> of an upgrade in certain things are not finished and of course the box will
> not boot into GUI mode. It did boot and flip into command line. OK. First I
> attempted to reinstall the upgrade but all I could get was an error message
> that I have insufficient disk space. See one of the things the final 10%
> does is clear out all temporary files so temp files were not cleared. Next
> thing I did was boot back to command line as root and clear /tmp of all
> files and
> directories. Done that in the past to free some apace. Next I removed Open
> Office. I had OO 1.3 and 1.72 installed. Then I decided to go home so that
> I could start removing RPM's of programs I do not use to free enough space
> to reinstall the upgrade. Done that in the past and it is a pain in the
> !@#$%. Anyway I get home and the blasted laptop boots correctly but I still
> have an issue. Upgrade was not finished. There are several programs that do
> not run Mozelle being one. Akk this leads to the question.
>
> Question
> Does anyone know the directory that the temporary files used in upgrading
> are stored in. I need to eliminate them so that I may finish upgrading.
> Simply placed I need the e-mail access that set up in Mozelle.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
>
>
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