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I wanna ask about Ubuntu 12.04 LTS running on my laptop. When I run OpenOffice, the menubar is showing ___ signs, including File, View, Edit, Tools etc. then I cannot find the words on it.

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Here's how I installed OpenOffice:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/office
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openoffice

Please help me fix this.

I already tried to install OpenOffice just like mitch said and the package won't able to be installed. Then I tried to install LibreOffice 4 [link] (How can I install OpenOffice?) and it shows me the problems AGAIN.

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oreizakrishna
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First thing you need to do is to remove you current openoffice installation.

To do so, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get purge openoffice
sudo apt-get autoclean

Also you may want to remove the PPA you added. To do that just: (Thanks to amc)

sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:upubuntu-com/office
sudo apt-get update

Then download openoffice 3.4.1 from their website, and choose you right architecture (Linux Intel DEB or Linux x86-64 DEB). Once downloaded, from terminal navigate to the download location (probably the Downloads folder), and run the commands below:

tar -vxzf Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
cd en-US/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

wait for the fist command to finish before running the last two commands.

On a personal note, I would go with Libreoffice as Wolter Hellmund recommended.

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Here is the problem : First, I realized after all it wasn't about the broken package or configuration itself. Then I tried to run Ubuntu Tweak > Tweak > Font. I changed the default font from Ubuntu to Aurulent Sans Bold Italic this is the figure. So the LibreOffice 4 will show up like this. Thanks to all user for helping me fix the problems :)

oreizakrishna
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