From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 2 00:27:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25219 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 00:27:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25035 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 00:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Netplex) with ESMTP id QAA03776; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:16:20 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199901020816.QAA03776@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Feldman cc: Richard Seaman , Wiliam Woods , "Kevin G. Eliuk" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Jan 1999 01:29:10 EST." Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:16:04 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 08:03:36PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > > I finally got it up and running too, but I had to do a lot voodoo :] It > > > won't work, as it errs in the middle of its BASIC registration script. Do es > > > anyone have a registration code they can share, or some other way to get one? > > > > The StarOffice instructions tell you that you need to add the Office50/bin > > directory to your default PATH. I had many problems trying to register, > > and could not complete registration, until I added the directory to my > > PATH in .profile. Once I did this, registration completed no problem. > > (The need to do this is also noted in the instructions for SO50 at > > http://lt.tar.com). > > Wow, that was the problem. I wouldn't have expected this. I _would_ have > expected the shell script Office50/bin/soffice to do this automatically, > however, and have modified it as such. I tried just about every permutation of this that I could think of (path at beginning, path at end, path for the xsession) and it never made any difference for me... The same old basic runtime error.. Incidently, I get basic runtime errors from other things too when I start trying sample scripts. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message