From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 12:36:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5852637B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7078 invoked by uid 100); 6 Oct 2000 19:36:18 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14814.10674.701187.669242@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:36:18 -0500 (CDT) To: Chip Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Star Office (Linux version) - does it work on FBSD? In-Reply-To: <19129456@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip writes: > I downloaded SO5.2 the other day, ran the install and it failed > immediately, with the bane of linux - the failed dependency. > Gads. > I really dislike this one 'feature' of linux. It's wanting a file > called libvos1GCC.so. I'm wondering if it's even worth trying to > get it to work? Anyone else got SO5.2 working on BSD? Is it worth > the hassle and disk space? Actually, that's not a failed dependency - libvos1GCC.so comes with staroffice. Something (as yet unknown) in the environment causes the setup program to fail to find that shared library. Even taking a package built on a system where it did install won't make setup work - but running "soffice" will get you set up and it will work. Personally, I think it was a waste of time. It opens one *big* window, and keeps it's windows in that - emulating MS-Windows all the while. It reminds me a lot of VNC to a windows box. If I wanted a windows-like environment, I woulda bought a windows box. On the other hand, I don't know of anything else that will do everything it will; if you need those things, it's the only answer.