Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:26:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com> Cc: freeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105292215200.44007-100000@shazam.int> In-Reply-To: <3B0FB1BE.15BB7ABF@iafrica.com>
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On Sat, 26 May 2001, Francois Kritzinger wrote: > If anyone knows please explain how to install StarOffice 5.2 on FreeBSD > 4.2. > > I ran the .bin script (with AND without the /net option), and the > installation program "completed successfully". I also changed the paths > in the programs/setup and programs/soffice scripts. > When I run soffice, it says that it can't find the file user/sofficerc, > even though it IS there. > After running it with the /net option, it won't let me run the setup > script as a non-root user. It says that "SO is already installed...". It > works when I'm root, though. > > I've tried everything I can think of to fix it, no success. This is > frustrating. Please help. > This is really evil, but here's how to fix it. I believe it a permission problem of some sort. The fact that it will run as root made me suspect this. The error message made no sense at all, so I got suspicious and I did a chmod -R 777 on /usr/local/office52 (that's were I installed the silly thing) and it then ran from a user login as well as root. Go figure.. I should have chased down the actual problem, but I was in a big hurry to get an Excel file to display on FreeBSD, so I did the chmod thing. Evil, evil... As someone else said, it is a pig on a slow machine, but it's really nice on an 850mhz P3 with 256 megs/ram. Having attached spread sheets or "Word Documents" open right in the mail window is really neat. I think that they wanted to control the integration between the spreadsheet, wordprocessor, mail, browser, etc, so they outdid Netscape and made a very Un-unixy monster that hogs all the resources by loading everything at once, but it does do a nice job if you have the horsepower. -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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