From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 1:45:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF1B14D32 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 01:45:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA15335 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:46:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:46:13 +0200 From: Karel Joop Bosschaart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 Message-ID: <19991011104613.A15218@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Reply-To: K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl References: <19991008142948.A316@marder-1> <37FE0CB8.79FB0E5C@owp.csus.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <37FE0CB8.79FB0E5C@owp.csus.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 03:24:40PM +0000, Joseph Scott wrote: > > Check out : > > http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html > > On my 3.3 system following the above I was able to get through the > install ( with the /net option ). However I ran into the infinite setup > problem. Even after I've successfully run the install, everytime I try > and run it the install comes up again. This happens if I run it as a > normal user or as root. > Quite some time ago I installed StarOffice 5.1 with the instructions which are now in http://lt.tar.com/oldindex.html, and I came around the infinite setup problem by putting a file called '.sversionrc' in my home directory with following contents: [Versions] StarOffice 5.1=/home/karelj/Office51 where /home/karelj/Office51 is the SO base directory. I don't know if this trick will do for the /net install... however I still had the problem with the plugin manager that could not be loaded. Regards and good luck, Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message