From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 9 21: 6:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caligula.anu.edu.au (caligula.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9739014D8C for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@coombs.anu.edu.au) Received: from localhost (rob@localhost) by caligula.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10110; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 14:07:12 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: caligula.anu.edu.au: rob owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 14:07:12 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle X-Sender: rob@caligula.anu.edu.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mcglk@serv.net Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 on CDs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Rob Hurle wrote: > Installing this has been painful, but Ken McGlothlen > (mcglk@serv.net) has some some excellent advice at: > > http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html > > If you are installing from the CD-ROM that you can get from SUN, there are > a few changes necessary: >...etc, etc StarOffice is now installed (without KDE integration since I am not using KDE), and I am now in the endless install loop. Every time I use the `soffice` command, I get the Install screen - modify, uninstall or repair options. Ploughing on, and Office terminates, with no chance to use swriter, etc. A `ps` shows that setup.bin has been launched at some stage - presumably by soffice.bin. Any ideas? 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