Anyone else having this openoffice unpack error?

[Dr.Diesel]

I have ignored it for a week thinking it was just uploaded with an error, but surley they would have seen it by now?

Running Transaction
Updating : openoffice.org-core ######################### [1/2]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/openoffice.org1.9.89/share/template/en-US/wizard/bitmap: cpio: rename

Updated: openoffice.org-core.i386 1:1.9.89-5
Complete!
[root@Garage andy]#

[jrittvo]

Yes, this hit most everyone. It is because some of the file structure of openoffice has changed, and the install script was not reworked (and will not be reworked) for the test version for whatever reason. So, what yoiu need to do is uninstall all of your present installation of openoffice.org and then delete anything under /usr/lib/openoffice.org* so that everything old is gone. Then install the present rpms and they should install without that error. And you will be good to go for future upgrades of it, so they say . . . If you need more detailed instructions of what to uninstall, delete, and install, post back here.

[Dr.Diesel]

Thanks, i thought I knew how to delete, rpm -e openoffice* but that doesn't work! Help please!

Thanks,
Andy

[jrittvo]

I use a package manager (synaptic/apt) so I'm not the fastest around rpm from the command line, but I don't think it takes a wildcard for a -e command (might be a dangerous thing if it did). So I would do it this way:

rpm -e openoffice.org-core

It will fail and spit out a list of dependencies, all the other openoffice.org packages that you have, and you will need to add them all in to the rpm -e command so it is something like:

rpm -e openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org.impress (etc,etc)

Then, after they are all gone, you can either delete the folder tree for /usr/lib/openoffice.org-{version} or run this command which is a more selective pruning:

rm -rf /usr/lib/openoffice.org*/share/template/*/wizard/bitmap

Now you will be able to install a newer version.

[Dr.Diesel]

Thanks, that did it!

[cybrjackle]

This is one of the reasons I suggest if your going to run a test release you should be on the mailing list.

Ellitot put this out on April 7th


If you run into this problem (which you will if you go counter to
recommendations and upgrade test1 to test2 :), the solution is to run:

rm -rf /usr/lib/openoffice.org*/share/template/*/wizard/bitmap

This must be done /before/ the upgrade.

Best,
-- Elliot


You don't have to rm everything, just one file. ;-)