Or easier way: edit the /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice, and add these 2 lines: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 export LD_PRELOAD This way, don't need to change the KDE menu. Regards, Verdi On Saturday 27 July 2002 07:13, Basil Fowler wrote:
To get it to work from a KDE menu, a separate two line script is needed.
#!/bin/bash LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 \ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/swriter
This script is called 'preload-swriter' and is placed in /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/program. Remember to be root and set the permissions to 0755!
The KDE menu 'Command'entry must be changed from:
"/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/swriter"
to
"/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/preload-swriter"
et voilà!
The process has to be repeated for other modules in the OO suite (such as scalc.
Hope that this is useful.
Basil Fowler