From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 11:38:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA25875 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tower.my.domain (nscs26p2.remote.umass.edu [128.119.179.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA25853 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gp@tower.my.domain) Received: (from root@localhost) by tower.my.domain (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA14914; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:28:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gp) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <346C7EED.5727190D@airmail.net.nospam> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:25:51 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Pavelcak To: "Laszlo G. Vagner" Subject: RE: staroffice Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 14-Nov-97 Laszlo G. Vagner wrote: >I did a make, make install for staroffice and it downloaded 2 large >files 7 meg and 15 meg >and it installed but when i try and run it i get an install screen and >it says its installed. > >when i try to run simage3 or any staroffice apps i get a message >saying >could not find /root/.sd.sh >and it exits. > >if i try and run setup i get " this version of unix is not supported" > >so i copied sd.sh that i found lurking in the staroffice directory >into >my root dir and renamed it >.sd.sh like it was looking for but now it says unexpected end of line >or >something like that. > >i have rebuilt my kernel with linux emulation, zip drive, and sound >card >support, and can run linux doom >so i am clueless as to what the problem is. > >have you got any suggestions? > >kf7nn@airmail.net > > If you look at sd.sh, you will see the first several lines look like they set some variable directory names. I couldn't get this to work right, so I just used brute force. I deleted all the lines that looked like programming and wrote in the names of the directories where the relevant items are located and voila, worked for me. Good luck. Greg --- Greg Pavelcak "Tonight we'll try to take over the world." -The Brain "Narf, poit" --Pinky Pascal Users: To show respect for the 313th anniversary (tomorrow) of the death of Blaise Pascal, your programs will be run at half speed.