>>> Well, I have. For third-party applications installed to some obscure >>> places in opt/, and not included in the PATH :oD >>> >>> I bet my whole Aretha Franklin CD collection that adding the correct >>> path will solve the problem. >>> >>> Therese: open a Terminal, su - to root (which means: type 'su -' and >>> then enter your root password) and type: >>> >>> # find / -name 'swriter' >> >> Ah maybe on to something :) >> >> OK, the output is: >> /home/nadsab/.openoffice.org2.0/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter >> /root/.openoffice.org2.0/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter > > OH Gosh now all of the sudden it automagically works! How could that happen? > > Last night I did a few restarts on the PC after installing, and OO would not start up. Then I just shut down the PC completely and went to bed - > woke up this am, turned on PC and then tried starting once more (after replying to all the helpful advice here :)) and now all OO apps are working. > > Is there a difference between restarting PC and completely shutting down as far as what's considered a reboot? Isn't a "restart" same as a "reboot" in Linux? Also one last issue in this thread and I think I'm done on this issue (and by the way thanks for all the wonderful help on this list everyone, this is a great community here). I tried re enabling SELinux and OO won't start, so I assume that I must have SE Linux disabled in order for OpenOffice to run - is this correct? if correct, is there a way I can still keep my system secure and run OpenOffice 2.3? I want to run OO 2.3 because I need to run Base for remote MySQL database connections with Calc. _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan