Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 17:52:24 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Does the following documentation work on Freebsd227 or just 3.2? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19991201175221.0068f218@pop.idx.com.au>
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The Email mentioned this documentation will help me setup staroffice51.
But is the prequsite Freebsd-3.2 or can work prefectly on older versions as
well?
Installation of StarOffice-5.1a in Linux Compatibity
The following instructions for obtaining and installing StarOffice-5.1
(from Sun) are loosely based on personal experience and
other accounts on the net, particularly Ken McGlothlen's detailed account
for FreeBSD-3.2. (Note: also available from the
StarOffice at www.bsdapps.org).
The directions assume that you are running FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE (or either
RELENG3 or HEAD branch after the
procfs_status.c patch added on Thu Aug 19 19:42:22 1999 UTC by marcel) and
that you have root or sudo privileges on the
FreeBSD machine in question (and a lot of diskspace). Without the
procfs_status.c patch, StarOffice-5.1a will not run properly
after being setup. This patch applies cleanly to 3.2 (and earlier?). It is
available from FreeBSD's online source tree or right here.
If you find any errors or discrepancies, feel free to let me know at
sean@stat.duke.edu.
Pre-intstallation preparation
1.Download the StarOffice from Sun Microsystems.
Select Linux(X86 ONLY) and your language of choice
Jump through their flaming hoops
Be patient, as the distribution is 65MB.
2.Linux compatibility support and libraries
The Linux compatibility support needs to loaded by /etc/rc.conf
linux_enable="YES" # Linux emulation loaded at startup.
at boot time; however, as root, you may type "linux" to load the
support.
(Note: this is required for installing linux_base package/port).
Install linux_base-5.2 port or package (both maybe downloaded
from FreeBSD website.)
(Note: linux_base requires a fair amount of diskspace)
3.POSIX Priority scheduling support in kernel
Verify support by using sysctl command: sysctl
p1003_1b.priority_scheduling
For FreeBSD 3.x, add the following entries to your kernel
configuration file
options "P1003_1B"
options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING"
options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L"
For -current, you can drop the " marks
options P1003_1B
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options _KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L
Configure, build, install and reboot with new kernel.
Performing the installation
This assumes that you will be performing a "network" installation (must be
performed as root), which will place the Office51
directory in a central location (e.g., /usr/local). This allows multiple
users to share the same base installation and only add about
2MB of bloat to their home directory.
1.Unpack the distribution (tarball) in a large scratch directory!
2.This should result in a so51inst directory with two subdirectories:
documentation and office51
3.Obtain rootly powers (su,sudo tcsh,etc.)
4.Set root's LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the temporary install directory:
for {t}csh users:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /tmp/sv001.tmp
for ksh/bash users:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/sv001.tmp && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
5.change directory into so51inst/office51, and fire up the network install
./setup /net
6.this will run you through the (Windoze-esque, configuration). I
recommend installing the distribution in
/usr/local/Office51 (or a similar central and meaningful location with
lots of disk space---152MB fully installed)
Cleaning up after the installation
Now that StarOffice has installed itself, there are a few minor tasks that
need to be done to make it play nice with FreeBSD.
1.Fix the broken applicat.rdb:
The FreeBSD installation does not generate a proper version of
/usr/local/Office51/bin/applicat.rdb.
This results in StarOffice complaining about the plugin manager
failing to start.
The broken version has an MD5 sum of
adea1eecc92c2a1996b4e1ed51595486
The correct version has an MD5 sum of
963432192fb13ee5fd39578becf614c3
Download a gzip'd copy of the proper version either by http or
ftp into /usr/local/Office51/bin.
As root, gunzip it over the top of the broken version.
2.Fix the setup and soffice scripts in /usr/local/Office51/bin:
Patch for setup
--- setup.orig Mon Oct 25 16:37:03 1999
+++ setup Mon Oct 25 16:37:29 1999
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/openwin/lib:../lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
;;
- Linux)
+ Linux|FreeBSD)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:../lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
;;
Patch for soffice
Note: only needed for RELENG3 branch, since the test command in
HEAD understands the -L flag
--- soffice.orig Tue Sep 21 11:30:09 1999
+++ soffice Tue Sep 21 12:31:03 1999
@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@
# resolve installation directory
sd_platform=`uname -s`
case $sd_platform in
- SCO_SV) test=/bin/test ;;
- *) test=/usr/bin/test ;;
+ FreeBSD) test=/bin/test && symb="-h" ;;
+ SCO_SV) test=/bin/test && symb="-L" ;;
+ *) test=/usr/bin/test && symb="-L" ;;
esac
sd_cwd="`pwd`"
-if $test -L "$0" ; then
+if $test $symb "$0" ; then
sd_basename=`basename $0`
sd_script=`ls -l $0 | sed "s/.*${sd_basename} -> //g"`
else
Setting up the end user
After all of that, you and your users can enjoy StarOffice in all of its
glory.
1.Setup PATH in user's accounts
For {t}csh, add something like:
set path = ( $path $HOME/Office51/bin /usr/local/Office51/bin )
to their .cshrc file (and source it).
For ksh/bash/sh, add the appropriate values to PATH.
2.Run /usr/local/Office51/bin/setup and perform a "workstation"
installation.
3.Once that is over, they should run the soffice command to allow it to
initialize their settings.
4.On the next invocation of soffice, the user most likely will see one
one warning message about a library not being found
an a warning concerning StarSchedule (which appears to work OK ...
very lightly tested), and then they are given the
opportunity to register.
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