From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 21:47:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB1C37B7AE for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (surry-pool-192.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.192] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA02040; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:58:14 +1000 From: Danny To: rob@coombs.anu.edu.au Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.2 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:51:41 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00071114543102.00326@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG - Hello - You can always invest in Applixware 4.2 for FreeBSD - It takes only 15 minutes to install - It allows you to collaborate with *.doc users *.xls users - From your anu.edu.au I can assume you work/study at the Australian National University in Canberra - Therefore you should check out www.everythinglinux.com.au and "invest" in a copy of Applixware On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Rob Hurle wrote: > StarOffice 5.2 has been released by SUN. For i86 architectures > there are versions for Solaris and for Linux available by download or on > CD from SUN. There is as yet no FreeBSD port for version 5.2 - the > version in /usr/ports is for 5.1, and has an option for loading from the > CD-ROM. > > I am running FreeBSD 4.0 on a pretty standard Intel box (great > system). When I attempt to install StarOffice 5.2 from the CD, we find: > > 1. The script assumes `test` is in /usr/bin/test, so a link needs to be > made from /bin/test: > > cd /usr/bin > ln -s /bin/test > > 2. The install script does not set the library path correctly. I solved > this problem by setting up a temporary directory: > > mkdir /tmp/fdir > cp /cdrom/linux/office52/f_0000 /tmp/fdir > cd /tmp/fdir > unzip f_0000 > setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /tmp/fdir > > and then run the install program. > > 3. The base directory that the installation script chooses is: > > /usr/compat/linux > > which is not so crash hot, but this can me moved or relinked after > installation. > > 4. Installation proceeds, but dies at the end as the setup program tries > to "register" libary routines. The log file shows the errors as: > > ERR register component: libctl569li.so : applicat.rdb > ERR UNO exception (libctl569li.so): > > for all of the library files, and the library files are unavailable to > soffice, so it will not run. > > Any ideas? I remember that problems in 1 and 2 (above) came up > with version 5.1, and we discussed solutions in this forum back then > (August last year?). However, this "registration" seems a more difficult > problem - I guess the *.rdb file is some database thing. > > Cheers, > > Rob > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Rob Hurle rob@coombs.anu.edu.au > Connect-A Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 > PO Box 13 Fax: +61 2 6248 8905 > Ainslie ACT 2602 Mobile: 0417 293 603 > Australia > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message