On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:12:56 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: The existing, latest, profile is under ~/.openoffice/1.1.1/ The 'new' profile sits under ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/ It is unclear, why it lives here. How to solve it: cd ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 rm -Rf * cp -a ../.openoffice/1.1.1/* . This copies the 1.1.1 into the folder where 1.1.2 seems to expect it. YMMV A bug report has been filed.