Thank you Phillip for your reply, I have been getting help from a chap on the Koffice list so I will see how that turns out before I do anything else. Regards Laurie Hartley On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:56 pm, Philip Rodrigues wrote: > Hi Laurie, > > > I have recently downloaded anf installed Koffice. NOn of the > > applications will start. At a terminal I get the following error > > message: > > kword: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.2: undefined > > symbol: _ZN11KMainWindow7setIconERK7QPixmap > > Can you advise me as to how to fix this problem. I am new to Linux and > > am keen to try out open source software. > > You need to make sure that you have qt, kdelibs, kdebase and koffice > packages installed from packages produced by your distribution. You must > also make sure that the versions match. Unfortunately, this is non-trivial, > since a) the KOffice version numbers don't match the version of KDE that > they work with, and b) some packagers do weird things with version numbers. > > If you post details of the distribution that you're using, someone here > might be able to help you find the appropriate packages. You might also > like to ask on a list appropriate for your distribution. > > Regards, > Philip ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.