From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 19:27:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAE437B43E for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from shazam (shazam [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f4U2O2b14413; Wed, 30 May 2001 02:24:03 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:26:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham X-Sender: durham@shazam.int To: Francois Kritzinger Cc: freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE In-Reply-To: <3B0FB1BE.15BB7ABF@iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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