Openoffice.org font problem + strange dependency (?)

From: Michael Bonert (bonerti_at_mie.utoronto.ca)
Date: 01/03/04

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    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.

    ---
    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).
    ---
    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
    -----
    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:
    -----
    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.
    -----
    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?
    --
    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)
    --
    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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