Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:09:33 -0600 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.2 & Netscape 6.x Stability Message-ID: <200109170009.f8H09Xf00986@c1828785-a.saltlk1.ut.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109151022190.1578-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109151022190.1578-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>
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On Saturday 15 September 2001 11:25 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Fri, 14 Sep 2001 it looks like Brian T.Schellenberger composed: > > bts->- StarOffice works great under FreeBSD. > > Hmm, I had nothing but hassles trying to get StarOffice to install. > I have both an original SUN StarOffice-5.1a CD, and the > StarOffice-5.2 CD and have tried the ports too. > > Could you take the time to share your installation experience ? I'm > running FreeBSD-4.2 I had some trouble installing, but only because somehow in the process of wiping my system and reinstalling, I managed to comment out the line in /etc/fstab about procfs being mounted on /proc..... the install routine attempts to communicate with itself via /proc. It works better if you add a line for linuxproc mounted to /compat/linux/proc, too. Here's mine: linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 1 Other than that, I have had no trouble with it following the port directions. make make install a message appears about closing X, and logging on as your "normal" user, and running make install-user. A caveat, though, the linuxulator in 4.2 may not be glibc version 2.1.2, which 2.1 or higher is required for StarOffice, at least the 5.2 version. If you have the CD, there is a variable WITH_CDROM you can use to have the port installer install from your CD instead. try "make install WITH_CDROM=YES" Beyond that, without specific error messages, I don't know what to suggest. BTW it seems that since my little fiasco, the maintainer has added a check for linprocfs to the Makefile. Might have saved *me* a lot of grief, but its nice to know things get fixed when you report them, so kudos to him if he reads this list. And if not, if any of you know him, feel free to pass on my appreciation... <(}: mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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