Hi Bo,

Have you solved your problem yet ?

Quote Originally Posted by BoDiddley View Post
I still cannot open a .pdf file in XPDF.
Is that any pdf file and just a specific pdf file ? In the second case, did you create the pdf file and if so, how ?

I have Knoppix 6.4.3 and I have just downloaded a pdf file and it was opened in okular. I tried xpdf and it opened in there too so it is not all broken for everyone everywhere.

Quote Originally Posted by BoDiddley View Post
However, Debian recently did a major stable update, which broke OpenOffice again.
Is this pertinent ? I mean, is the manipulation of pdf files in Open Office what broke for you and without which OpenOffice is no use to you ?

Quote Originally Posted by BoDiddley View Post
I have been doing stable upgrades only for some time now because of OpenOffice.org.
What do you mean by this ? To me, this suggests you have been tracking Debian Lenny, which last year did upgrade OpenOffice.org but only to fix 'security' issues. Now Debian Squeeze is Debian Stable. If you upgraded to this, your whole software base, OpenOffice.org included has jumped two years. Very sorry if this 'broke' your OpenOffice again but it's not like the Debian project did anything Jobsian / Gatesian / patronisingly megalomaniac / shut up little user we know what's best for you.

If this is what happened, I suspect the Knoppix way of doing things is to save your personal data, do a HD install of Knoppix 6.4.4 (which near coincided with the release of Debian 6 aka Squeeze), restore your personal data and go from there.