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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
> 
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