I just faced the same problem on Knoppix 3.2

I think this is a screw up with Open Office 1.1.0-3 English with Knoppix



Can you confirm your version of open office?

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dpkg -l openoffice* | grep ii
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 high-quality office productivity suite
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3+2 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-3 English US language package for openoffice.o
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