Seeing that there seems to be a consensus building that I have an installation issue, the prudent course of action would be to back up my files - pictures, documents etc. and reload with a clean Fedora 9 package.
Would you concur?
-------------- Original message from Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:15 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:09 +0000, vohnmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I've upgraded to Fedora 9 and about the only thing that seems to run
> > > with any consistancy are the KDE applications. Third party programs,
> > > such as OpenOffice, will not run. FireFox runs sporatically in Gnome
> > > but not at all in KDE. Forget about Gnome applications - Evolution
> > > for example.
> > >
> > > I have been using Evolution as my mail client/calendar/contact list
> > > and more for some time. It interfaces with OpenOffice by allowing it
> > > to generate labels using the contacts from Evolution.
> > >
> > > Has Fedora abondoned support for Gnome? How about OpenOffice?
> > >
> > > Or, is there something I am missing?
> > ----
> > create a new user and try logging in as that user and see if gnome,
> > openoffice, etc. work properly, which they should.
> >
> > If so, the problem is with the files in your $HOME directory
> >
> > If not, you have a problem with your installation
> >
> > GNOME, OpenOffice should work fine on an updated Fedora 9 installation.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> They not only should but they do. Something is wrong with you
> installation.
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