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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:30:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, emulation@freebsd.org, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Staroffice 5.0 under 4.0-current (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902170929230.50628-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990217141400.E515@lemis.com>

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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Tuesday, 16 February 1999 at 18:13:59 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:54:54 -0500, Adhir@worldbank.org wrote:
> >> I'm running 4.0-current as of late last week, elf kernel.  Everything works
> >> great - no problems.  I understand that the Linux kernel threads stuff is now in
> >> my system by default, so I should be able to download and install StarOffice
> >> 5.0.  Others on the list have confirmed that it works.
> >>
> >> I, however, am unable to get it running.  The setup program continually
> >> complains about not finding the glibc2 libraries, even after I extracted them
> >> into /compat/linux/lib and reran /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig.
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> FWIW - Linux Wp7, and several others work just fine....
> >
> > yet another
> >
> > sounds like the package is severely broken in some way..
> 
> Daniel O'Connor just sent a message to -hackers on this.  To quote:
> 
> > The install was a pain tho, as I had to unpack the setup program
> > (its a self extracting zip) and rename the libs in it to lower case
> > and then add an LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to them, but apart from
> > that it was OK.

I had to do that too (it expected /tmp to have vast quantities of free
space which I didn't have).  I used 'unzip -L' to lowercase the filenames.

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