From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 9:47:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 09:47:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AA3737B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20965 invoked by uid 100); 9 Dec 2000 17:47:38 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14898.28730.700268.967612@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:47:38 -0600 (CST) To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: StarOffice Installation lossage (Was: Linux Emulator seems to be faulty) In-Reply-To: <130245032@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG O. Hartmann types: > Dear Sirs. > > I installed StarOffice now successfully on several machines - but the > target machines were freshly installed. I have still trouble installing > StarOffice 5.2 on the main server and the error seems really to be curious. > > After the download the installationscript starts extraction and after > determining the glibc-version of the Linux emulation (I got the newest > stuff from the ports now) I receive an error message like this: > > could not find shared library libvos1GCC.so > > Nnormally, this library resides in /usr/local/office52/program. Obviously > is the installation routine seeking for this lib before it is installed. > How does it come? I search the whole tree for another lib like this bit > there is no one else. > > It seems that something went wrong with my installation on the main server, > but I can not simply reinstall all the stuff, so I have to look for the > mistake by hand. > > Has anybody ideas how to track down the problem or is this problem known? I've seen this one myself. The StarOffice installation process is dearchiving files in /tmp, then attempting to run using those files as shared libraries. For some (unknown) reason, the dynamic linking fails on some systems. It's hard to track down beyond that, because the (*)&&(^% StarOffice installation process cleans up all the files you need to diagnose it after the failure. Anyway, the workaround is to make a package on one of the machines you've got it installed on properly, then install the package. You can then run ${PREFIX}/office52/program/soffice to do the per-user installation process. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message