Openoffice fails to start

[Matthias Klose]

never seen that. is ia32-libs-openoffice.org installed?
just try to update using synaptic or from the commandline:
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  sudo apt-get install openoffice.org2

Leen Toelen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed OpenOffice on an ubuntu server installation which
> initially did not have X or Gnome installed.  Right now X and a
> (minimal) Gnome are working, but OpenOffice fails to start from both
> the console and the Gnome menus. This is the error message:
> 
> 
>>ooffice2
> 
> /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/javaldx: error while loading shared
> libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/pagein: error while loading shared
> libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> 
>>oocalc2
> 
> /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/javaldx: error while loading shared
> libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/pagein: error while loading shared
> libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> 
>>locate libdl.so.2
> 
> /lib/libdl.so.2
> /lib32/tls/libdl.so.2
> /lib32/libdl.so.2
> 
>>locate libm.so.6
> 
> /lib/libm.so.6
> /lib32/tls/libm.so.6
> /lib32/libm.so.6 
> 
> Anyone knows what might be the cause for this? Is there a package that
> still has to be installed?
> 
> Regards,
> Leen Toelen
>