Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:12:26 -0800 (PST) From: dR <dystopianrebel@yahoo.com> To: "Michael W. Oliver" <michael@gargantuan.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64/rel 5.3 - success with OpenOffice! (linux_compat) Message-ID: <20050304061226.91355.qmail@web52307.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050304041030.GA6962@gargantuan.com>
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My thanks to you, Mike and Jung-uk! I am finally able to use OpenOffice on my FreeBSD box! I'm so happy, I'm typing this in OO to let you know. :o) Here are the steps that I followed, slightly adapted from yours (see **): 1. Rebuild and install kernel with: options COMPAT_43 options LINPROCFS options COMPAT_LINUX32 2. reboot 3. add the following to /etc/fstab linprocfs /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 4. mount /usr/compat/linux/proc **5. cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 && make install clean (I could not install linux_base; I had to use linux_base-8.) 6. cd /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14 && make install clean 7. cd /usr/local/src # or where ever you want 8. fetch "http://openoffice.mirrors.pair.com/contrib/rc/2.0bc/OOo_2.0bc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz" 9. tar -zxvf OOo_2.0bc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz 10. cd RPMS 11. mv openofficeorg* /usr/compat/linux # (do this so that the extracted usr/bin and usr/share stuff are put in the right place later) 12. cd /usr/compat/linux **13. For each RPM file, run rpm2cpio [filename] | tar -xvf - I know it's clumsy, but it got me on the bus. :o) 14. rm openofficeorg*rpm 15. echo "/opt/openoffice.org1.9.79/program/filter" >>/usr/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.conf **15 i) Ensure that the paths in ld.so.conf are FULLY QUALIFIED. **15 ii) Ensure that this line is in ld.so.conf: /usr/linux/usr/X11R6/lib 16. /usr/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig 17. Run /compat/linux/opt/openoffice.org1.9.79/program/soffice & - - - Until we can build OO natively on 5.3 Release/AMD64 (I get an error about "soltools"), this solution will work for me. I'm very grateful to you. Thanks again! Marko Ottawa, Canada __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
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