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From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
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Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1A Howto
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Mark Conway Wirt wrote:

>    Libraries
>    ---------
> 
>    Make sure you have a current version of the Linux_lib port
>    installed.  On my system, I'm running 2.6, and it seems to work
>    well.  The package is in /usr/ports/emulators in case you haven't
>    installed it.

linux_lib has been replaced by linux_base-5.2 for a while now.

>    File System
>    -----------
> 
>    If you keep a small root partition, you may want to temporarily
>    reassign /tmp to another partition.  For example:

You can set the TMPDIR env. variable to handle this:

csh:	setenv TMPDIR /usr/tmp
sh:	TMPDIR=/usr/tmp; export TMPDIR

>    Unfortunately, there are libraries that the setup process needs
>    that you'll need to install by hand.  Move the setup.zip file into
>    a temporary directory and unzip it.  Note that the libraries will
>    need to be in lower case, so check the man page of your unzip to
>    see if you can force that.  My copy of unzip will do that with the
>    "-L" option:

I always installed SO without all this hassle. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
always was enough:

csh:	setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH	.
sh:	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

>    Modifications to the soffice Script
>    -----------------------------------
> 
>    First, change the line that defines "$test" from
> 
>        *)      test=/usr/bin/test ;;
> 
>    to
> 
>        *)      test=/bin/test ;;

This is not needed for linux_base-5.2

>    change the line that performs the test from:
> 
>        if $test -L "$0" ; then
> 
>    to
> 
>        if $test -f "$0" ; then

Probably also not needed, because the test that's being used understands
-L

>    Lastly, change the line that read
> 
>        sd_script=`ls -l $0 | sed "s/.*${sd_basename} -> //g"`
> 
>    to read instead
> 
>        sd_script=`ls $0 | sed "s/.*${sd_basename} -> //g"`

New too me...

>    Modifications to applicat.rdb
>    -----------------------------

This is indeed necessary for SO5.1a, so I've been told :-)

All in all a pleasant HOWTO, but a bit outdated and needlessly complex
:-)

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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The FreeBSD project                mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org


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