I posted something similar some weeks ago. I have exactly the same problems with version 1.0. Judging from answers that I got to the previous posting it is possible - and not more difficult than installing StarOffice - to install OO under 7.3. When I try to install (either logging in to X as root, using "sux" or "sudo") and giving the command ./setup or ./setup -net is this: The message "glibc: 2.2.4" in my terminal and immediately thereafter a progress meter that's actually indicating something . Then the progress meter dissapears and I get the prompt back some seconds later. Stracing the process (strace -o /tmp/oostracefil sudo ./setup -net) gives me 128 ENOENT (No such file or directory) messages. Also during "installation" the directory /tmp/sv001.tmp is created and also deleted. This directory contains some of the files that are reported missing. I have a fairly normal 7.3 setup: kernel 2.4.18 built from mantel sources, no abnormal libraries (if you don' count some ximian-libraries that got installed with apt-get before i deleted ximian from my sources-list). Clues? Hints? Other failure-stories? -- UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum