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Open Office and X11, Can you help?

elisha cuthbert

elisha cuthbert

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Feb 25, 2006
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Ok people so recently i downloaded OpenOffice and tried to install and run it but i got a message saying that X11 hasnt been installed and to please install it to continue. Turns out i do have X11 installed and i dont know what the hell is going on
so please help me people
 
What kind of computer and OS version is this with? Your sig says iBook G5 so that doesn't help much. :p

And how are you sure that you have X11 installed? How did you install X11? Are you sure that you installed X11 itself and not the X11 developer tools for XCode? That's a mistake a lot of people seem to make, because it isn't clear which is which from the installer packages....
 
mkrishnan said:
What kind of computer and OS version is this with? Your sig says iBook G5 so that doesn't help much. :p

And how are you sure that you have X11 installed? How did you install X11? Are you sure that you installed X11 itself and not the X11 developer tools for XCode? That's a mistake a lot of people seem to make, because it isn't clear which is which from the installer packages....
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Its and iBook G4 and its OS Version 10.4.8
hope it helps
 
elisha cuthbert said:
Its and iBook G4 and its OS Version 10.4.8
hope it helps
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Okay, now, back to the issue of whether you have X11 installed. From System Restore discs, you should insert the FIRST disc. Otherwise insert the Tiger DVD. Then, if you open the disc up in Finder, and scroll down to the bottom of the window, you will see a package icon called "Optional Installs." When you run this and select the destination, you will get a list of what you wish to install. Underneath Applications is X11. You must check that and then proceed with the install.

When you have completed this successfully, you should have an "application" called X11 in your Applications or Utilities folder. Unless you have this, you have not installed X11 successfully (and probably installed something else).
 
have you opened it and does it run just fine, also you might try reinstalling X11, or trying to point OpenOffice to the app somehow.
 
I would echo the prior posters' comments on using NeoOffice instead.

It's a Aqua-native(ish) port of OpenOffice. I've used it and it seems to work fairly well.

Now, you could in theory go the route of installing Fink / Fink Commander, but that would be like using a mallet to swat a fly.
 
ok, i got it now.
i reinstalled X11 from a tiger disc and it now works and it seems to run along alot less buggy than neooffice
thanks for all the help
 
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