[Sderby] OpenOffice 1.0

Dominic Knight sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Sep 5 18:34:02 2002


On Tuesday 03 September 2002 16:37, Dave Coulson wrote:
> Hi All
> Can you advise me on this problem-
> I installed OpenOffice successfully under SuSe 7.2. However it won't ru=
n,
> simply producing the banner screen when I launch it from KDE. If I type
> soffice into a Terminal window, I get the banner again and a message wh=
ich
> says something like "X window system does not support LC en eur" + a lo=
t of
> other nonsense. My guess is that it doesnt like the fact that I have ch=
osen
> English as my base language and maybe it can't find a euro symbol. What=
ever
> the whole thing aborts. Does this mean that I need a more up to date
> version of XFree86 (current version is 4). If so, is there an easy way =
to
> do it from KDE or SuSe, since I have a copy of 4.1.0 on a cover disk an=
d
> the instructions for use are horrendous. Any advice welcomed.
> Cheers Dave C.

I can loan you the SuSE 8.0 cd's if you want to go for the full update.

Dom