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.
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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).
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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?
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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)
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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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