Casare,

thanks for your reply - here's the output from your requests.

 + whereis openoffice
openoffice: /usr/bin/openoffice /etc/openoffice /usr/lib/openoffice
/usr/X11R6/bin/openoffice /usr/bin/X11/openoffice /usr/share/openoffice
/usr/share/man/man1/openoffice.1.gz


 + ls -l /usr/bin/open*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      6 2007-07-14 08:40 /usr/bin/open -> openvt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2075 2007-03-06 03:42 /usr/bin/opencdk-config*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 2007-09-10 08:40 /usr/bin/openoffice ->
ooo-wrapper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 405992 2007-03-06 03:20 /usr/bin/openssl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  12728 2007-01-22 11:05 /usr/bin/openvt*


 + ls -l /usr/bin/oo*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     82 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/oobase*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     82 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/oocalc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     82 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/oodraw*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     77 2007-07-02 14:40 /usr/bin/ooffice*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     86 2007-07-02 14:40 /usr/bin/oofromtemplate*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335832 2006-07-12 09:27 /usr/bin/oogl2rib*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 338616 2006-07-12 09:27 /usr/bin/oogl2vrml*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     85 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/ooimpress*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     82 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/oomath*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     81 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/ooweb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     84 2007-07-02 12:09 /usr/bin/oowriter*


 + sudo apt-get install --reinstall openoffice.org-common
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libgnome-vfs-common libcommons-pool-java libbcel-java eclipse-jdt
libgnome-vfs0 libcommons-modeler-java eclipse-pde
  libgdk-pixbuf2 eclipse-rcp libservlet2.4-java libcommons-beanutils-java
libkexif1 libcommons-launcher-java libgsf0.0-cil gconf
  ntp-simple libcommons-logging-java libgnomeprint15
libcommons-collections-java libtomcat5.5-java libjsch-java libwv-1.2-3
  libmx4j-java ia32-libs-gtk libgnomeprint-bin libcommons-dbcp-java oaf
libwxgtk2.4-1-contrib libxml1 liblucene-java ntp
  libcommons-el-java libcrypto++5.2c2a libmagick++9c2a libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2
eclipse-source libregexp-java libhamlib2
  libglade-gnome0 libcommons-collections3-java eclipse-platform libgconf11
libcommons-digester-java libglade0 liboaf0
  libgnomeprint-data libgnet2.0-0 liblucene-java-doc
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/12.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 185028 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace openoffice.org-common 2.2.0-1ubuntu4 (using
.../openoffice.org-common_2.2.0-1ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openoffice.org-common ...
Setting up openoffice.org-common (2.2.0-1ubuntu4) ...
Updating OpenOffice.org's dictionary list... done.

 +
 + openoffice
The program 'openoffice' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-common
-bash: openoffice: command not found



No joy.

Thanks so much for your time!

-Randy Fischer



On 9/10/07, Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Can you check the output of these commands (from your standard account):
>
> whereis openoffice
> ls -l /usr/bin/open*
> ls -l /usr/bin/oo*
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall openoffice.org-common
>
> and paste it here?
>
> ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> openoffice appears installed, but openoffice binary missing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138631
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>