This problem appears to have mystically resolved itself. After startup
I find both 'oooqs' and openoffice's 'setup.bin' are running:
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$ ps aux | grep openoffice
david 24292 0.0 0.1 4048 1320 ? S 14:16 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/openoffice -plugin -quickstart
david 24310 0.0 0.8 35520 6640 ? R 14:16 0:00
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin -nogui
-R:/etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf
$ ps aux | grep oooq
david 870 0.2 2.1 29056 16104 ? S 13:19 0:08 oooqs
$
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I still can't run oowriter, but that will be the subject of another bug
report.
Regards,
David.