Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:13:28 +0100 From: tobi@bland.fido.de (Tobias Ernst) To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Staroffice 5.1 Message-ID: <MSGID_242=3A7600=2F1_3860edac@Fido.DE>
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Hallo! I hope I am not yet bothering you with my questions ;-). Today is my "I want to get all those Linux goddies working" day :-). I have tried to install Staroffice 5.1A for Linux now. With linux_base 6.1, not even the setup program worked. As I read the warning that linux_base 6.1 may not work properly on -STABLE, I have backed out linux_base 6.1 and installed linux_base 5.2 (which comes with FreeBSD 3.4). I had a Redhat 5.2 CD at hand, luckily :-). With this, the installation started successfully. I followed the guidelines and Howtos that I found here and on the Web. No matter which variation I went, all those recipes that involved calling "./setup /net", i.E. a multiuser installation, worked without problems, but when I, as a user, then (after the personal installation) started "soffice" (the proper one from /usr/local/lib/Office51/bin), it just starts the installation program which tells me that "/home/tobi/Office51/sofficerc" cannot be found and that I should try to repair it. However that file is present and looks valid. I examined .sversionrc, Office51/sofficerc, and all the scripts, and they looked right - but I was simply not able to start Staroffice. Then I tried another howto, available at http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html. This recipe involves doing a normal installation (without /net) parameter, and provides a shell script that each user can run, which transmogrifies the single-user installation into a multiuser one, i.E. the script copies some files from thöe installation location into the home directory and then starts Staroffice. This way, it worked, i.E. I effectively got a multiuser installation, could start Staroffice and work with it. However, it has the one problem, which is also documented in this recipe, that upon startup, I get an error message telling me that the "PluginManager" could not be loaded. After all I have read, this error is due to a wrong applicat.rdb. The only problem is - I have patched my applicat.rdb, it now shows the right checksum, but the damn thing still doesn't work. I even re-installed and patched applicat.rdb right after the first "./setup" run, but it did not help either. I get some other error messages like these when running Staroffice (e.g. when using the AutoPilot), which probably are related to the first one. Do you have any suggestions? Viele Grüße, Tobias To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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