Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 03:01:44 +0800 From: "James Lim" <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org> To: <tvrusso@sandia.gov>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE Message-ID: <004801c0e93b$036707c0$635e78cb@evilfry> References: <3B1501D4.3D3455C2@sandia.gov>
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Hi there,
I had a previous problem before.
Seems that sofficerc is located within the /compat
dir, and what staroffice is looking for would be
in /home/$user instead. I just linked it to the
home dir, that solved it. Any one using similiar
solutions?
Regards,
James
http://sg.freebsd.org
http://www.bsd-geeks.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Russo" <tvrusso@sandia.gov>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jim Durham wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 26 May 2001, Francois Kritzinger wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> When I run soffice, it says that it can't
find the file user/sofficerc,
> >> even though it IS there.
> >> [...]
> >
> > This is really evil, but here's how to fix it.
I believe it a permission
> > problem of some sort.[...]
>
> Hmmmmm. That's a different evil work around
than I was forced to use.
> If Jim's "fix" doesn't do the trick for you,
maybe mine will. By the
> way, I posted on this subject to
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc a few weeks
> ago, because I've seen the same question posed
on several mailing lists
> and discussion forums, but never saw an answer.
For a good laugh, do a
> google search on "sofficerc not found" some
time, this problem's been
> around a while.
>
> I was getting the same error on three separate
4.2-RELEASE machines with
> similar configurations, and in the end tried:
> truss soffice >foo 2>&1
>
> Sifting through the godzillion or so lines of
that, I found that soffice
> was trying to open
"/users/local/office52/program/applicat.rdb" ---
> despite the fact that StarOffice was installed
in /usr/local/office52.
> /users is my user home directory partition.
There was no configuration
> file *anywhere* that had /users/local in it. I
never did figure out why
> that was happening, I did the "evil" thing:
ln -s /usr/local
> /users/local
>
> Oddly enough, on a very similar machine at home
that fix didn't work,
> and truss revealed that it was looking for
applicat.rdb in
> /usr/./office52/program instead. The "evil" fix
ln -s
> /usr/local/office52 /usr "fixed" it. I have
been unable to figure out
> why three separate identical installations of
StarOffice 5.2 (from the
> ports collection) would have two different
broken behaviors. Nor have I
> bothered to figure it out after finding the work
around. I guess I'll
> just wait for the OpenOffice source install to
be ready, and pitch the
> linux binary version then.
>
> Note that in all these cases "fixing" the path
to applicat.rdb ended the
> complaint that it couldn't find
office52/user/sofficerc! Go figure.
>
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