It may also help to repair permissions beforehand. I always download by hand, then install (although that could also be because I need to reuse the same updater on 500 computers), and I rarely get failures. Too much can go wrong too easily, and it adds an unnecessary layer of complexity for limited benefit (when updates like this come out, the entire Internet knows through news/blog sites within 24 hours, so it's not like you'll miss out on anything). Personally, I don't even bother with the auto-updater. Save yourself the frustration, time and data and go straight to plan B: the manual download.
It's probably not going to go any better second or subsequent times. That is, if you try to use the auto-updater and it fails, don't keep retrying. Generally, auto-updaters are good in theory, but will either work properly or not at all. The Installer creates them as temp junk as part of attempting to run the updater, and if it finds them still there due to a failure, it'll just keep failing, even if the cause of the original failure has gone away. Rename them if you're not comfortable fully removing them (Microsoft has custom-hacked the installer package to all hell, as they set up a bunch of symlinks to the Office 2008 files in /tmp and then operate via the symlinks instead of the actual files/folder). pptx).Īs far as install failures go, firstly, if you get a failure, either restart your computer or remove any *, com.microsoft.*, or "Applications" items from /tmp/. The converter is only intended to provide forwards-compatibility to Office 2004, to allow it to "open" (ie: convert to something else, then open the something-else) files in the newer formats (.docx. into an Office 2004-compatible format (.doc. No, you don't need the converter if you have Office 2008.
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