From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 07:45:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA25483 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 07:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA25475 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 07:45:50 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id KAA01020 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:33:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA09370; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:33:39 +0200 Message-Id: <9708181433.AA09370@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from "veith@bigfoot.com" of Mon, 18 Aug 97 16:02:49 +0200. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Installing Star Office 3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Aug 97 16:33:39 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk veith@bigfoot.com writes: > After I had installed the Linux emulator, I wanted to install Star > Ofiice 3.1 for Linux on my FreeBSD-2.2.1 system. So I fetched the main > file, the statically linked binairies (I don't have Motif) and the > English package (because the German one is ten times larger). I unpacked > everything and wanted to run the setup. The first Problem: I had to > change the setup script because "uname -s" replies "FreeBSD" and not > "Linux" as expected. > > Having changed this, I could run the setup under X. But now I get this > error message: > > "Installation: > Line 1: Syntax error at token 'I' expected > declarator; i.e. File ... " > > So what is the problem? Did You have a similar error message as well? > Where can I find this script and in which way should it be modified? > why not use the port (/usr/ports/editors/staroffice) ? Seems to me that there are patches in it to handle all your problems. The port also installs version 3.1. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org