Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:48:13 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> To: tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staroffice 5.1 Message-ID: <3862605D.B710DB83@heartland.ab.ca> References: <MSGID_242=3A7600=2F1_3860edac@Fido.DE>
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Try the port editors/staroffice5. You may have to cvsup your ports tree, the new staroffice one is only a few weeks old. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca Tobias Ernst wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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