Hi Xavier, Thanks for your advice
- snip - > Did you try a strace on OpenOffice ? > For example, here is how to track which files are opened by bzflag: >| strace -e trace=file /usr/games/bzflag $ strace -e trace=file /usr/bin/openoffice > /tmp/OO-strace The screen of Konsole window was running too fast. I could not take down all information displayed therefore I copied them to a file '/tmp/OO-strace' thus created. However there is much content inside the aforesaid file. I ran it twice with the same result. Please refers to the file attached to this posting. B.R. Stephen
OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz running openoffice.org setup... setup failed.. abort ---- Please read /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz for known problems -----