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Openoffice.org font problem + strange dependency (?)



I'm having a little problem with fonts in Openoffice.

The menu across the top says:
"(F)", "(E)", "(V)", "(I)", "(O)", "(T)", "(W)", "(H)"

Instead of:
"File", "Edit", "View", "Insert", "Format", "Tools", "Window", "Help"

All the submenus are likewise effected.


I'm not sure if that is a good description.  Any case, a picture is worth
a thousand words.  Take a look at a snapshot of the mess:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/bonert/ooo_fonts_kaputt.png


How did I manage this master-piece?

It took me just one command:
# apt-get install kde

After that OOo (OpenOffice.org) was screwed.
Why?  I don't know.

Theories.
---
1. OOo is at fault
The openoffice.org upgrade got screwed.

2. kde is at fault -- (seems like a long shot)
It has something to do with the fact that I installed kde-base and a few
other components first (since the package 'kde' had been broken... for a
few months).
---

What I tried:
1.
$ mv .openoffice .openoffice.old

$ openoffice	# restart OOo
It then complains that .sversionrc points to
"file:///home/michael/.openoffice/1.0.2" so...
$ mv .sversionrc .sversionrc.old

$ openoffice 	# restart OOo
result: problem still not solved.

2. -- maybe my kde config is a bit different than the usual.
$ mv .kde .kde.old
logout
log back in (kde -- will regenerate ".kde" using defaults)

result: nothing

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I then looked at some of the package info:

stokes:/home/michael# COLUMNS=132 dpkg --list |grep openoffice
ii  openoffice.org              1.1.0-3        high-quality office productivity suite
ii  openoffice.org-bin          1.1.0-3        OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.0-3+1      Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-help-en      1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
rc  openoffice.org-l10n-en      1.1.0-1        English (US) language package for openoffice.org
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw   1.1.0-3        Chinese Traditional language package for openoffice.org

Any one see a problem here?  I don't.

However, I didn't like the fact that 'openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw' was
installed; I didn't remember installing it and, also, don't have any use
for it.  

I tried to remove it:
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stokes:/home/michael# apt-get remove openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  oooqs-kde openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files
openoffice.org-help-en
  openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 202MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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What strikes me as strange is that basically all the openoffice files
depend on it.  Am I the only one that thinks this
(openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw) dependency is strange?

--
ASIDE - the two packages not upgraded are 'kdebase' and 'kcontrol'
(kcontrol has given me problems -- I had to go back to an older deb I had
lying around in /var/cache/apt/archives/ --  kdebase was complaining about
a dependency problem with kcontrol)
--

Any help would be much appreciated.




-- System Information --
Software:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel: Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (root@stokes) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Mon Oct 27 21:34:51 EST 2003
Desktop Env.: KDE 3.1.1

Hardware:
Athlon 2200 XP
ASUS A7N8X Motherboard
ASUS V8420 - NVIDIA GeForce 4
512 MB RAM



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