oowriter won't execute as user

[JD]

On 09/07/2010 01:03 PM, Jim wrote:
>    On 09/07/2010 02:59 PM, JD wrote:
>> On 09/07/2010 11:46 AM, Jim wrote:
>>>      FC13/KDE
>>>
>>> oowriter will not execute as user, but it will execute as Root.
>>>
>>> $ ls -al oo*
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oobase
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oocalc
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oodraw
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 35 Aug 14 11:14 ooffice
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 44 Aug 14 11:14 ooimpress
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oomath
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 ooviewdoc
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 43 Aug 14 11:14 oowriter
>>>
>>>
>> oowriter works just fine here as regular user.
>>
>> Are you sure you are executing /usr/bin/oowriter
>> and not some oowriter in a different dir, which is
>> also in your PATH?
>>
>> type the command:
>>
>> which oowriter
>>
>> to be sure.
>>
>>
> I executed it as /usr/bin/oowriter in console and it tries to start ,
> and it does not give any error messages.

So, the openoffice banner does not pop up?

I suggest you do the following:

1. rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org | sed 's/\-[0-9].*$//' > /tmp/oo.pkgs
2. cat /tmp/oo.pkgs | xargs sudo rpm -e --nodeps
3. cat /tmp/oo.pkgs | xargs sudo yum -y install

after that, retry oowriter.

Cheers,

JD