installed packeges:
LibO_3.5.3_Linux_x86_helppack-deb_en-GB.tar.gz
LibO_3.5.3_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
LibO_3.5.3_Linux_x86_langpack-deb_en-GB.tar.gz

I'm new here so not sure how to report this...

I'm unable to start LibreOffice at all. Attempting to run each of sbase, scalc, sdraw, simpress, smath, soffice, swriter, or soffice.bin from a bash shell in the /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/ directory always produced the splash screen for a moment then failure with the following error printed out on the command line:

/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/../program/libpyuno.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode

I'm using Puppy Linux 528 Lucid, which is a variant based on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

Initially installed from Puppy package:
LibreOffice-3.5.1-en_us-2.sfs

Then when it failed with that error I tried:
LibO_3.5.3_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
LibO_3.5.3_Linux_x86_helppack-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

That failed with the same error message.

The same crash when opening any ms-word document

Same happens to me on Centos 6.2 (the lookup-error).

The way I can usually fix this is by
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or with
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH

So it is a pure library-lookup-problem and only happens if the user has LD_LIBRARY_PATH set.

Would be nice if the installation was tolerant in this respect

In potuguese(do Brazil): helo,fiz download  do LibreOffice 3,5.3 , anteriromente usava um   LibreOffice3.4   ,e a configuração da página do editor de texto não9 sei como fazer para fazer minha mnografia,MAS o mais grave agora é que após instalar e reinstalar,um só e mesmo prloblema se apresenta, não visualizo   o fundo branco do editor,esta parte  fica,eu olhando,do lado direito meio escondido,e não fica centrado por nada que já tenha eu feito,foi isso, não sei como fazer para usar meu editor de texto ou writter,do LibreOffice 3.5.5.3.Thanks,Ricardo Loureiro Junger.

In potuguese(do Brazil): helo,fiz download  do LibreOffice 3,5.3 , anteriromente usava um   LibreOffice3.4   ,e a configuração da página do editor de texto não9 sei como fazer para fazer minha mnografia,MAS o mais grave agora é que após instalar e reinstalar,um só e mesmo prloblema se apresenta, não visualizo   o fundo branco do editor,esta parte  fica,eu olhando,do lado direito meio escondido,e não fica centrado por nada que já tenha eu feito,foi isso, não sei como fazer para usar meu editor de texto ou writter,do LibreOffice 3.5.5.3.Thanks,Ricardo Loureiro Junger. /ricardoljunger@gmail.com

   After udate cannot print the correct size. drawing are all printing in the left top corner


    This is a  massive problem for us

Seems like python configuration error. Did you try advice from comment 4?

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*** Bug 50538 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It seem to be related to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting as described in the comment #4.

Any update with recent LO version (4.2.4 or 4.1.6 for example)?
Indeed, Python version has been upgraded to 3.X for quite a while.

No feedback since 6 months, I put it as WFM.