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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:04:17 -0400
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To: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
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Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ?
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Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1
> > for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot.
> > The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the
> > Posix real-time thread support and linked the
> > additional libraries to the Linux compatibility
> > directory and slightly corrected the startup scripts)
> > but when I start the installed program "soffice"
> > it just starts the setup screen again! Tried to

> Try running staroffice as a non-root user.

Tried. Same thing. The only additional problem I noticed about
running as root was that it ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH
but I did overcome it by creating symbolic links
to the libraries from /usr/compat/linux/lib. Otherwise
seems to be no difference (tried also to remove
these links and run from an ordinary user: same effect).

-SB


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