Seeing that there seems to be a consensus building that I have an installation issue, the
prudent course of action would be to back up my files - pictures, documents etc. and
reload with a clean Fedora 9 package.
Would you concur?
-------------- Original message from Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>:
--------------
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:15 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:09 +0000, vohnmaxwell(a)bellsouth.net wrote:
> > I've upgraded to Fedora 9 and about the only thing that seems to run
> > with any consistancy are the KDE applications. Third party programs,
> > such as OpenOffice, will not run. FireFox runs sporatically in Gnome
> > but not at all in KDE. Forget about Gnome applications - Evolution
> > for example.
> >
> > I have been using Evolution as my mail client/calendar/contact list
> > and more for some time. It interfaces with OpenOffice by allowing it
> > to generate labels using the contacts from Evolution.
> >
> > Has Fedora abondoned support for Gnome? How about OpenOffice?
> >
> > Or, is there something I am missing?
> ----
> create a new user and try logging in as that user and see if gnome,
> openoffice, etc. work properly, which they should.
>
> If so, the problem is with the files in your $HOME directory
>
> If not, you have a problem with your installation
>
> GNOME, OpenOffice should work fine on an updated Fedora 9 installation.
>
> Craig
>
>
They not only should but they do. Something is wrong with you
installation.
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