A previously installed version was found
I had StarOffice 8 installed on my SuSE Linux system.
Then I had to reinstall Staroffice, and so I removed the /opt/staroffice8 directory. I also removed the staroffice settings directory on my home.
Now when I want to install StarOffice, the installer says "A previously installed version was found in /opt/staroffice8"... I don't where the installer gets this information from because the directory is non existent...
How can I install StarOffice 8 again?
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joaorf] at [2007-11-26 6:16:47]
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There is a chance, since you didn't use the rpm program (which is invoked by the installer) that the rpm database still "thinks" that StarOffice is installed.....any and/or all of the components.
The solution if the above won't work is to "force" the installation of the wanted components using the --force uption manually.
navigate to the rpm's folder on the installation disk...and from the command line install
the desired components with the --force option as root...such as:
rpm --force -ivh <all of the rpm files that you want to install>...this should make it install regardless of what it "thinks"...
There might be a way to "force" an uninstall or installation through Yast as well...I'm not sure about that....
