I downloaded Java, Removed LibreOffice, and installed OpenOffice. I see all the icons, and everything, but when I click on it to open it, NOTHING happens. I just, wont open, I uninstalled, and reinstalled it. and I dont know what to do. Can anyone please help me?
I downloaded Java, Removed LibreOffice, and installed OpenOffice.
Why ? O.O
pls tell us,
Dont bother with openoffice, go back libreoffice ^^"Here’s what you do:
- Remove OpenOffice
- Install LibreOffice
OpenOffice is discontinued a long time. Last time updated was 4.1.6 on Jan 25, 2019
Last major release, 4.1, was 2014. It’s a dead duck.
I don’t have solutions, but I have a pressing question: why?
I’m not sure OpenOffice is even supposed to work nowadays.
(Anyway, maybe try running from a terminal. Usually programs log the errors into it.)
Why do you need OpenOffice? It isn’t maintained
Try to launch OpenOffice via the command line and see if you get any errors, that might help you with what to search for.
OpenOffice is dead. Use literally anything else if you want it to work properly.
The reality that OpenOffice is dead since a decade aside and you only want to try it for experiment reasons and not for actually using it: What happens instead? Do you get any error messages? Try running it from a shell and see if you get any useful output.
All these people saying “Just use LibreOffice” are missing the point: if they ask about a program, then that means they have a usecase for said program.
This isn’t StackExchange; let’s not repeat that cycle.
Edit: Changed “is” to “are”. Lol.
This is only correct when the software in question isnt abandonware from 2014
Eh, I can see where you’re coming from, certainly, but I feel it’s a slippery slope from this stance to full-blown StackOverflow levels of ignoring-the-question.
Sure, but they may also be unaware OpenOffice is unmaintained and its worth pointing out.
Then those people should say that as an addendum or side-note to an attempted answer to OP’s question, not as a replacement for said attempted answer.
You’re not wrong, and I’m upvoting everything you say because I hate the smug SO people who ask why instead of actually trying to help.
But in this specific case, there’s literally no reason to use OpenOffice, it’s discontinued. People shouldn’t have to explain how to use a defunct software with an addendum.
It’s not an obscure programming language with an edge case, it’s a word processor.
You’re not wrong, and I’m upvoting everything you say because I hate the smug SO people who ask why instead of actually trying to help.
Yeah, I hate those people too. I appreciate the support.
But in this specific case, there’s literally no reason to use OpenOffice, it’s discontinued. People shouldn’t have to explain how to use a defunct software with an addendum.
It’s not an obscure programming language with an edge case, it’s a word processor.
I can see where you’re coming from. Still, I personally try to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume until demonstrated otherwise that they have considered alternatives and decided their current program is best for their particular usecase.
Is it naïve? Possibly. I fully admit that possibility.
Go for LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Both can be installed natively or with Flatpak or Snap (or maybe AppImage) is a safer bet.
- btw, OpenOffice is not discontinued, and AUR of Arch Linux has the binary version : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openoffice-bin Last Updated: 2024-01-17 09:32 (UTC)
Thanks.
It’s decades old is is probably broken. Run from the console and see what happens. More than likely it’s a core dump.
Even Oracle, a company that funds OpenOffice and has its own proprietary fork of it, doesn’t use it internally. Oracle internal laptops come with libre office installed.
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