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Date:      Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:00:16 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        FBSD_CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: StarOffice 4.0
Message-ID:  <19981220000016.A29094@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <00eb01be2b89$b30648c0$f301040a@c063.beaverton.stream.com>; from Wiliam Woods on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 11:56:39AM -0800
References:  <00eb01be2b89$b30648c0$f301040a@c063.beaverton.stream.com>

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According to Wiliam Woods:
> I am planning on useing StarOffice for my office suite, unfortunaltely, the
> only version I can find anywhere is 4.0 sp3. Does this work on FreeBSD? I am

This version works beautifully under 3.0. You have to patch the setup.bin
binary and a library afterwards (because they reference /proc directly).
Instructions below, taken from a mail in -hackers.

> running 3.0 curent and I know 5.0 does not work.

It will hopefully soon.

-=-
From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>

> On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 08:59:40PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > However, the installed thing doesn't run properly and consumes only cpu time
> > but I hadn't had time to investigate this yet...
> 
> The installed program requires '/proc/<pid>/cmdline', too. Doing that
> sed-thing again on the soffice.bin will probably help you.

Thanks for the hint... After modyfing lib/libsal364.so as well
Staroffice 4.0 SP3 is running here.

So the complete instructions are:

1. Unpack the sp3 distribution
2. cd into the Install directory (where setup.bin is)
3. sed -e 's,/proc/%u/cmdline,/compat/linux/so,' < setup.bin > setup.new
4. mv setup.new setup.bin
5. chmod 755 setup.bin
6. touch /compat/linux/so
7. ./setup

The install program should run and install StarOffice. Maybe I missed some
step but this is closely what I have done.

Then, after installing it, go to the lib directory and do the sed command
on libsal364.so:

1. sed -e 's,/proc/%u/cmdline,/compat/linux/so,' < libsal364.so > libsal364.new
2. mv libsal364.new libsal364.so
3. chmod 755 libsal364.so

The new /compat/linux/so path can be anything that does not exceed the 16 
characters. It only has to point to an empty file...

	-Andre
-=-
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov  8 01:22:20 CET 1998


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