Neither OOo word processor nor Abiword work with my newly installe Ubuntu 8.10

First please be sure your system is fully updated/upgraded with no pending packages or errors:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(when the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install openoffice.org
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then reboot the system... open a terminal and type:

openoffice.org

Report any errors here...

Hope this helps

Marcobra - Thanks much for the response. I did as you instructed but ran into a problem. Here is the last seet of installation messages and what happened.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core
  openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
  openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge
  openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev
  openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
  openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin
  openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-writer2latex
  python-uno
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 63.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 238MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.
bob@bob-desktop:~$ openoffice.org
bash: openoffice.org: command not found

 There were several sets of installation sequences , some of which noted files to remove but ended as shown above. Memory is not an issue as I have 6.8GB total available, 50% RAM and 90+% swap. What should I do now?

Marcobra. I copied yuou last set of isnstructions but no luck. Here is the last set of lines.
bash: 0: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$ Need to get 63.6MB of archives.
bash: Need: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$ After this operation, 238MB of additional disk space will be used.
bash: After: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$ Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
bash: Do: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$ Abort.
bash: Abort.: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$ bob@bob-desktop:~$ openoffice.org
bash: bob@bob-desktop:~$: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$ bash: openoffice.org: command not found
bash: bash:: command not found
bob@bob-desktop:~$

i see an abort response after the

"Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y"
Abort.

Please redo... and report only errors here...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(when the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

Please do copy and paste into a terminal one row a time then press enter the commands below:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install openoffice.org
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then reboot the system... open a terminal and type:

openoffice.org

Thank you

I repeated the instructions and got the same result - Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort. I really appreciate the time you are spending on this. Thanks much. Bob

--- On Sun, 12/28/08, marcobra <email address hidden> wrote:
From: marcobra <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #55621]: Neither OOo word processor nor Abiword work with my newly installe Ubuntu 8.10
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 4:42 PM

Your question #55621 on openoffice.org in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/55621

    Status: Open => Answered

marcobra proposed the following answer:
i see an abort response after the

"Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y"
Abort.

Please redo... and report only errors here...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and
type:
(when the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see
nothing when you type it, then press enter)

Please do copy and paste into a terminal one row a time then press enter
the commands below:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install openoffice.org
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Then reboot the system... open a terminal and type:

openoffice.org

Thank you

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Partial fix - Can now read documents and get typing on OO.0 word processor butstill get no top tool bar- just dashes where words like"File" should be. When I click on the dash where "File" normally is I get a drop down menu but also shows only dashes. This is same as I had before on either OO.o or Abiword.

You must not get Abort when you answer to the question...

Please do it again... but when the system ask you

"Do you want to continue [Y/n]?"

simply press enter the system take the upper letter [Y/n] as default answer so you not need to answer "y"

Please try...

if you still get abort please report the command row that return this Abort answer...

Thank you

I had the exactly the same problem. Do you use a Nvidia card? Because, I solved it when I removed the nvidia-glx-96-dev.

 I have an nvdia Geforce 2 MX graphics card. However, OO.o word processoer, et al, worked great with it on earlier versions of Ubuntu. The last was Hardy. Something has change with Intrepid as the problem only started after I installed it. I guess it could be some conflict with the nvidia card but I would rather go back to Hardy, if possible, rather than change cards. Is there any other solution for Intrepid?

So do I, Geforce 2 400/400MX

Errr, you'd have to switch your Status bar on from the View menu to see that info. I forgot it wasnt a standard feature. Sorry

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

I closed this problem by reinstalling "gutsey". Everything works great again. Thanks to all who tried to help. It's great to have such backup when you need it. robdemo

Nice one. Thanks Robert :)