Issue 55272 - /etc/openoffice-2.0 is a dead symlink
Summary: /etc/openoffice-2.0 is a dead symlink
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 55273
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOO 2.0 Beta2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olaf Felka
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Keywords: oooqa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-09-30 05:40 UTC by antiskid
Modified: 2005-10-03 19:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description antiskid 2005-09-30 05:40:04 UTC 
Testing install on debian-sarge.  Converted rpms to deb using alien; installed 
via dpkg.  When complete, found that /usr/bin/soffice is a dead link.

/usr/bin/soffice is a symlink to /etc/openoffice-2.0/program/soffice.

But /etc/openoffice-2.0 is a dead symlink to /opt/openoffice2.0.0, which does 
not exist.  However, /opt/openoffice2.0 _does_ exist.

So the problem is fixed by deleting /etc/openoffice-2.0, and creating a new 
symlink with

ln -s /etc/openoffice-2.0 /opt/openoffice2.0

Now /usr/bin/soffice points to the right place and works.
Comment 1 mci 2005-09-30 18:01:07 UTC 
Hi antiskid,
thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

I use Ubuntu (which is debian based) and OOo from ftp.linux.cz...

I don't get your problem since the described "/etc/openoffice-2.0" does not
exist on my system...

in a shell I do "ls -l /etc/openoffice*" and I get 

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 26 2005-09-18 19:40 /etc/openoffice.org-1.9 ->
/opt/openoffice.org1.9.130
Comment 2 antiskid 2005-09-30 21:52:33 UTC 
This issue pertains to the 2.0-rc1 linux download, which unpacks into a
directory named OOO680_m1_native_packed-5_en-US.8958.  The issue was not present
in the previous release, which was part of the 1.9 series.  When opening the
issue, the latest release I could pick was beta2 - I think this must be
identical to rc1.
Comment 3 aziem 2005-10-03 03:50:02 UTC 
I use the 2.0.0 rc1 RPM on Fedora Core 4, and this is my symlink (not dead):

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 Sep 28 21:49 /etc/openoffice.org-2.0 ->
/opt/openoffice.org2.0
Comment 4 antiskid 2005-10-03 04:44:13 UTC 
The symlink is contained in the debian package
openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.0-1_all.deb.  This package would not be
installed on Fedora.  It is a debian-only issue.
Comment 5 flibby05 2005-10-03 19:16:38 UTC 
closing double

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 55273 ***
Comment 6 flibby05 2005-10-03 19:34:12 UTC 
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