Thanks for the reply.
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> What do the errors you get have to do with "root"?
Because I don't the error when I run abiword as root.
It seems to me this is a permission problem. I have one set of library that
Is OK when I run it as root,and the same binary will fail when I run it as
non-root.
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> Sometimes problems occur as non-root because the wrong shared libraries
> are being linked in. Do you have multiple iconvs and/or glibs installed?
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I do, But I don't think that is the problem. The result of "chatr" shows that
the binary has been linked with the library that I was expecting to be linked.
I think that has something to do with font setting.
thanks again.
__Mehdi