OpenOffice doesn't open

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I get the following error when I try to open OpenOffice Calc/Writer/Presentation on Ubuntu 8.04.
"The application cannot be started.The user interface language cannot be determined. "

Please guide me to solve that problem. I have reinstalled it, but of no avail

at the installation which language ur telling them?
that is which language ur installing in ubuntu?

Its shown as English (India)

asnvin, please open gnome-terminal
type oowriter and press ENTER
Ypu'll probably have the same problem, then copy paste the terminal output here. Let's see.

Problem solved. The openoffice directory in /usr/lib was not accessible to my user account. I just changed permissions and it started working