From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 10:48:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 10:48:44 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7789137B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB9IodU67709; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:50:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:50:39 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice Installation lossage (Was: Linux Emulator seems to be faulty) In-Reply-To: <14898.28730.700268.967612@guru.mired.org> 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 On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: Dear Mike. Today I found out, that the curoius thing seems to be regarded to the usage of shells! I prefer the ksh/bash/sh shells and they mess up the installation. i have some users using csh on our server and, voila, I could do a full user-install. But changing my shell does not have any effect, it seems to be a more tricky thing on the other accounts. I can assure the following: using bash turns myself into loosing hairs, using csh offers me a base installation, but the per-user installation fails on some accounts, on others it works great. Hope someone find the mistake in the shellskript and do the trick of bugfixing Oliver :>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. :> :> -- :>Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ :>Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. :> - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 Tel: +496131/3924152 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message