Hi Lee, Nope - never had openoffice installed on this machine. First time of trying. Yes, the software works fine for root, not normal users. I did install the SuSE gnome RPM for OOo. I thought I'd give the unofficial SuSE RPMs a whirl. They were slightly more instructive - indicating several failed dependencies: libjawt.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libneon.so.24 is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnspr4.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.3) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.4) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.6) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.7) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.9) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libnss3.so(NSS_3.9.3) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libplc4.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libplds4.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libsmime3.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libsmime3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libsmime3.so(NSS_3.4) is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libsoftokn3.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 libssl3.so is needed by OpenOffice_org-1.9.121-0.1 So I installed mozilla, which I think provides all these packages. I had previously hand installed firefox so had assumed all was well.... It looks like mozilla should provide libnss3.so, but it doesn't look like it's being installed. What the hell is going on here???? Any ideas?? Cheers, Jon. BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:48 am, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Hi,
Yeah - I'm pretty certain it's not related to NFS. The weirdest thing is that when I try to run soffice (which fails to start), if I then try to list the contents of any folder I get a similar error message:
/bin/ls: symbol lookup error: /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2: undefined symbol: __db185_open
which seems to suggest that the environment variables are getting well and truly screwed up by running soffice.
I'm really unsure about how to proceed with this. Other people have suggested that there is some sort of setup you need to run as a normal user before using openoffice - but I've looked and I can't find it!
Anyone any ideas?????
Cheers, Jon.
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Jon, Is this the only OpenOffice you have installed on your system? I am running the new beta 2.0 version without problems here, so I'm wondering what the differences might be. I also have installed the 1.x version as well, so my 2.0 was able to import some things from that in my home directory, when first run. If you only have the one, there is some setup needed, the readme files will help.
I'm guessing also that you haven't taken the time to read the "readmes" included with the OOo files? You might find it helpful in getting things working again. Did you install all the rpm files including the "suse menus" rpm? If as you say, it's trying to write to locations only available to root user, don't you think it logical to assume it might be a problem for users? Not trying to be a wise guy, just trying to point out some simple questions you should have thought of while trying to run down the problem.
It sounds as if you have a bit more complicated system setup than I, so other things could be part of the problems you are experiencing. Did you have another beta version installed before installing the new one? Did you remove all the older files first before installing the new? Take a look in /opt and see how many other 1.9.x directories you have there still. Also, take a look in your HOME directory for older .openoffice.org directories.
good luck, Lee
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