I took another go at it, uninstalled the RedHat version of OO, downloaded and installed the RPMS from OpenOffice.org (version 2.0.1-1.i586) and so far they seem to work fine. It does not setup the OO shortcuts in KDE that the RH version does, otherwise it is fully functional. The question remains: Why is the RedHat version of the binaries not working? -----Original Message----- From: George J. Jahchan [mailto:Fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 14:03 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Open Office 2.01 not working. Tried both Arthur's and Thad's suggestions, When launched from the console (/usr/bin/oowriter) there are no status messages in the console. I also tried uninstalling all oo packages and reinstalling only the basic packages (without the language packs) to no avail. OO is still exhibiting the same symptoms. Any other suggestions?