From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 21 10:44:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAEF14EA2 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA48726; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:44:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:44:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: mcglk@serv.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Staroffice 5.1 on 3.3-RELEASE (how I ended up getting it to work) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This morning I decided to install Staroffice 5.1 on one of my 3.3-RELEASE machines -- previously I had only used the StarDivision version of StarOffice, and only on 4.0. Needless to say, I ran into some bumps, but I figured I'd let people know how I ended up getting it working for me based on plain&simple 3.3-RELEASE, and so that you could put updates on your page if you liked. I largely followed the directions found at: http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html which assume 3.2-RELEASE. The differences were that: 1) I skipped the modifications to libosl517li.so, as they caused the infinite setup problem described previously (wherein once a user install is performed, the user is always put back into Setup and prompted to Repair or Deinstall instead of running the Office package). 2) I used ./setup /net to do a central installation, meaning that the default user install is only around 1.7mb instead of the 7mb via the symlink approach, or the 160mb if you actually install it all in each user's directory. Also, I found that the advice to move the 'Fun & More' directory resulted in StarOffice whining about being unable to install files it expected to find, so I left them as they were -- it breaks shell interaction with the files for users who don't know what they're up against, but works fine in the GUI, so... I have not yet figured out how to get rid of the two warning messages at startup, which are irritating but appear not to actually break anything. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message