From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jun 16 21:45:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89E114EB8 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06919; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:45:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:45:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199906170445.AAA06919@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: alvermark@teligent.se, newton@atdot.dotat.org Subject: Re: Staroffice 5.1 installation Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Jakob Alvermark wrote: > > > > I finally managed to install StarOffice 5.1 on 3.2-RELEASE. > > Funny thing is when I try to start the "soffice" program in the > > "Office51/bin" directory, it starts the setup program! In fact any > > program in the "bin" directory starts the "setup" program. > > Has anyone managed to install StarOffice 5.1 on FreeBSD and get it run? If > > yes, how did you do it? > > You need write access to the "config" directory and all its files, > together with a few others. Keep in mind that it's the single user > version of StarOffice; I don't think it's intended to be installed > as root :-( > > - mark > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org > but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton > ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- > Try the following: 1. install as root, say in /usr/local/lib/Office51 2. login as a regular user, create the file ~/.sversionrc with these two lines (replace /home/luoqi with your own home directory): [Versions] StarOffice 5.1=/home/luoqi/.soffice 3. create directory ~/.soffice 4. cd ~/.soffice 5. cp /usr/local/lib/Office51/sofficerc . 6. cp -r /usr/local/lib/Office51/{config,store} . 7. mkdir Desktop basic download agent bookmark explorer mkdir template autotext gallery wordbook backup database work 8. run /usr/local/lib/Office51/bin/soffice You should effectively have a multiuser installation. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message