Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:43:33 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle <rob@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@serv.net> Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 - SUN's CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9910111421530.28787-100000@caligula.anu.edu.au>
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Final chapter for those interested. The story so far: Sun's CD-ROM of StarOffice 5.1 for Linux does not install directly for FreeBSD. You need to follow Ken McGlothlen's instructions on: http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html with some mods at Stage 1, concerning Linux libraries (see earlier posting). A further mod is required to Ken's instructions for: Stage 3: Finishing the install Do not use the "soffice" script mentioned in the above document, as it will not work for the CD-ROM. You do not need it anyway, since StarOffice 5.1 only installs about 3MB in each user's home directory (not the 160MB that the script was designed to circumvent). That's it. It now works. One curiosity, upon which someone may be able to shed some light: I installed the CD-ROM on my Linux system (I can boot to either RedHat 5.1, or to FreeBSD 3.3). After I run Office5.1 on the Linux system, the characters on the terminals (ALT/CTRL F1, F2,..) are messed up - things like "$" instead of "a", and so on. The only cure is a reboot. It's appears to be a problem with X messing up the video card, or something. I've seen it before on FBSD 2.2.8 when the memory was specified incorrectly in /etc/XF86Config. No longer a problem, but I'd be interested to hear an explanation. Cheers, Rob Hurle ---------------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle rob@coombs.anu.edu.au Connect-A Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 13 Fax: +61 2 6248 8905 Ainslie ACT 2602 Mobile: 0417 293 603 Australia ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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