From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: Open Office 641d binary installs without error, but will not run on KDE desktop. Displays the Open Office Logo and an hour glass while attempting to start, but never starts. Only part of app that works is the setup utility to repair, modify or remove entire program. No error messages given to indicate reason for failure to load. Installation on different linux box, also running 7.2.93 Skipjack Beta2, with different hardware, using same 641d binary downloaded from OpenOffice.org website exhibits identical problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Clean install of Skipjack 7.2.93 Beta2 2.Download and install OpenOffice 641d binary in KDE 3.0 desktop as user. 3.Right click on binary and chose "extract to here" 4.CD to Normal folder and executed "setup" 5.Fill out registration info and accept default folder location. 6.Go to new folder (OpenOffice641) and select shortcut/link for "Soffice". 7. Program will display Blue OpenOffice logo for several seconds, but it will never open up to the program interface. Eventually blue logo disappears. Actual Results: Program never runs and opens. Expected Results: Expected program to run just like it did in 7.2 with KDE 2.2. Additional info:
This is likely related to the locale problemin the default install. Check bug 62844.
It looks like not all of the steps recomended at http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/setup-linux.html were followed. Particularly step 3. Prerequisites You want to make sure you have the latest JRE installed. It must be at least JRE 1.3. You can find the JRE for Linux at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html - or might be included on the installation media of your distro. 1. Download the tarball from OpenOffice.org, and extract the tarball (.tar.gz file) to a temporary directory. "/tmp" is a good place for example. For the purpose of this example, I will assume you have downloaded the tarball to your /tmp directory. Open a terminal, such as xterm or konsole. To extract the tarball, change to the /tmp directory: cd /tmp and extract the tarball: "tar -zxvf [tarball name]". 2. This will create a directory "install". Change into this directory: "cd install." 3. Execute setup. This is done with the following command: "./setup -net" This command will start the first step of the Linux setup process. 4. Follow the instructions of the installation application. When asked where to place your OpenOffice program files, you can choose "/opt/OpenOffice.org [version number]" as a good place for your new home of OpenOffice.org. For example, if your version is 641d, "/opt/ooo641d" would be a good place. 5. When the installer is finished, you should execute the user-setup for OpenOffice.org. To do so, first change into the program directory where you installed OpenOffice.org: cd /opt/ooo641d. 6. From this directory, execute the following command: "./setup [without the -net, this time]". 7. The user portion of setup will now execute. Tell setup to perform a normal installation (should copy about 1.4 MB of files to your home directory) and tell it to store the files in your user directory under ooo641d (for example: "/home/billg/ooo641d"). Follow the instructions and fill in your contact details, and tell OpenOffice.org where your Java installation lives. When setup asks where to install the files for OpenOffice, Usually, OpenOffice.org will find Java on its own, but sometimes it need you to give the path to Java. (tip: if you don't know the path to your java setup, you can type in the command line: whereis java - this will give the path to your java installation) 8. When setup is done, the will want to setup your printer. You can do this by executing the following command in the same directory (/opt/ooo641d): "./spadmin" 9. When you have configured your printer, you can change into your home directory: "/home/billg/ooo641d". 10. type "./soffice" to start OpenOffice.org! Please note that begnning with version 1.0, OpenOffice.org will create menus and icons for GNOME and KDE during the setup, so step 9 and 10 will be redundant.
I tried the recommendation of "bnctotman", i.e., to install JRE 1.3.1 before installing Open Office. After finding an RPM for JRE at FreshRPMs, I installed JRE 1.3.1 and then followed the "Linux Set Up" written by Marijn Dekkers at the OpenOffice.org website (except I did not do a network install - ./setup -net since I don't use a network). During OO install, I also had to point OO to the following directory in order to see JRE (/usr/java/jrel1.3.1; the install apparently does not see or can not find Java by itself. With the aforesaid path, OO installer indicated "Java runtime environment (version 1.3.1 verified)." Sorry to report, my original bug report still stands. Open Office programs (Soffice and Sadmin) do not work in RH 7.2.93 beta. Tried this installation under KDE3 and Gnome with same results.
This is an openoffice problem, not a KDE problem.
Inactive for 2 years, and fixed in a current release. Please reopen if the problem persists. Thanks to morte in #fedora-bugweek who tested this in a current release.