OpenOffice 2.0.3 proposed startup problem

[timread]

I have installed the "dapper-proposed" candidate of openoffice 2.0.3 from:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-proposed main


And while it installs ok, and appears listed under my office kde menu. I am unable to start any of the programs. If I run, for example the word processor from a command line:

ooffice -writer

Then it just sits there without completing. I think it must be a permissions problem, since if I run it as root:

sudo ooffice -writer

Then it runs fine...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[sky]

Re: OpenOffice 2.0.3 proposed startup problem

Hi,

I've just tried from a 32bits box and it's running well from command line and k menu.
I'm compiling it on my 64 to see if it will work.
Maybe you should try to give output errors to packagers or developers to help them for bug fixing.

Cheers

[timread]

Re: OpenOffice 2.0.3 proposed startup problem

Thanks for your comments. The problem is that I did not get any errors, the command line just didn't run.

I have managed to fix it however. I put it here just in case it is useful for anyone else. I copied root's .openoffice.org2 directory over my own, changing ownership with chown and chgrp and now it works. Strange.

Thanks,

Tim