[discuss] Missing Parts

[Michael Harold]

Hi the List,

I hope that someone has had this problem and has found a fix for it.

I am at present running Ubuntu 9.10, as upgraded from 9.04, and tried to
print envelopes from OOo 3.10 Writer and found that it did not work.

To make sure that I was doing the 'right thing' I downloaded 'Getting
Started', the 'Writers Guide' and 'Printing Envelopes' from the OOo Wiki
- and found that I was stymied from the very beginning!

1. No Envelope in the display area. It remained a solid grey.

2. 'Address Data Source' is missing from the Wizards fly-out.
Ref. P342 Writers Guide: 'Registering a Data Source' is stopped right
there!

3. Unable to register an existing spreadsheet stopped the rest of the
settings.

I have noted all the extra packages for OOo in Synaptic Package Manager;
but I am a bit wary of down-loading the whole lot when maybe a couple of
them might do the mending. Question is - Which ones?

Having tried deleting an un-wanted programme, and had the hassles of
getting rid of hidden dependencies and links so that a 'clean'
re-installation can be made; I would prefer that option be avoided!

Hopefully,

MikeH

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[Gordon]

Michael Harold wrote:
> Hi the List,
>
> I hope that someone has had this problem and has found a fix for it.
>
> I am at present running Ubuntu 9.10, as upgraded from 9.04, and tried to
> print envelopes from OOo 3.10 Writer and found that it did not work.
>
> To make sure that I was doing the 'right thing' I downloaded 'Getting
> Started', the 'Writers Guide' and 'Printing Envelopes' from the OOo Wiki
> - and found that I was stymied from the very beginning!
>
> 1. No Envelope in the display area. It remained a solid grey.
>
> 2. 'Address Data Source' is missing from the Wizards fly-out.
> Ref. P342 Writers Guide: 'Registering a Data Source' is stopped right
> there!
>
> 3. Unable to register an existing spreadsheet stopped the rest of the
> settings.
>
> I have noted all the extra packages for OOo in Synaptic Package Manager;
> but I am a bit wary of down-loading the whole lot when maybe a couple of
> them might do the mending. Question is - Which ones?
>
> Having tried deleting an un-wanted programme, and had the hassles of
> getting rid of hidden dependencies and links so that a 'clean'
> re-installation can be made; I would prefer that option be avoided!
>
> Hopefully,
>
> MikeH

AFAIR you need to download and install Base before the database function
in Writer can be used...

[NoOp]

On 12/13/2009 08:27 PM, Michael Harold wrote:
> Hi the List,
>
> I hope that someone has had this problem and has found a fix for it.
>
> I am at present running Ubuntu 9.10, as upgraded from 9.04, and tried to
> print envelopes from OOo 3.10 Writer and found that it did not work.
>
> To make sure that I was doing the 'right thing' I downloaded 'Getting
> Started', the 'Writers Guide' and 'Printing Envelopes' from the OOo Wiki
> - and found that I was stymied from the very beginning!
>
> 1. No Envelope in the display area. It remained a solid grey.
>
> 2. 'Address Data Source' is missing from the Wizards fly-out.
> Ref. P342 Writers Guide: 'Registering a Data Source' is stopped right
> there!
>
> 3. Unable to register an existing spreadsheet stopped the rest of the
> settings.
>
> I have noted all the extra packages for OOo in Synaptic Package Manager;
> but I am a bit wary of down-loading the whole lot when maybe a couple of
> them might do the mending. Question is - Which ones?

In Synaptic install the OpenOffice.org package and sun-java6-jre
packages. Ubuntu does not include the entire OOo package in the initial
install. This was originally due to CD limitations, but despite the fact
that after the CD/upgrade, they still leave out openoffice.org-base,
...java-common etc.