From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 6:41: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF0E37B420 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 06:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g42Detl98323; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:40:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:40:55 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Chris Griffiths Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: OpenOffice: Linux binary won't run Message-ID: <20020502094055.A98302@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020502090411.A98157@blackhelicopters.org> <20020502091803.A14706@dca.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020502091803.A14706@dca.net>; from cgriffiths@dca.net on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:18:03AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [re: OO insisting that it needs to be repaired to run every time it's started] On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:18:03AM -0400, Chris Griffiths wrote: > Michael Lucas (mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) wrote: > > I have OpenOffice installed, and keep running into this issue. > > Which version of OpenOffice are you running, I have OO 1.0 installed now > on a 4.5-stable machine running linux_base 6.1. I've tried 641D and 1.0, with the same results, under both linux_base6 and linux_base7. > > When I run soffice, I get a notice that "the script file is being > > read." Rather than opening a program, I get the "repair/deinstall" > > screen. > > Check to make sure that your .sversionrc is pointing towards your > install. My .sversionrc installs pointing to /shared/home/mwlucas/OpenOffice1.0, which is where my workstation install lives. I've tried editing it to point to the main install under /usr/local, but get a warning that it's already installed there -- as you might guess. :-) > Also I usually install OO or SO6 as root doing the following: > > # ./setup -net > > I then point my install to /usr/local/openoffice and install everything > there. > > When that is done I go back to my user and cd to the install directory > and run > > bash-2.05a$ ./setup > > as my user and install the network install which is about 4-5 megs for > OO in my home directory /home/useraccount/openoffice. I did exactly this. Thanks, Chris, but no dice. Anyone else have a suggestion? ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message