Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:23:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Christopher Vance <vance@aurema.com> Cc: <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: staroffice52 Message-ID: <20020220191823.K2304-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20020220181417.A13453@aurema.com>
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I am running StarOffice52 on this weekends -STABLE and it is still working as well or badly as ever. Though I am running gnome desktop now, it is not needed for StarOffice. Did you try to do a # make deinstall && make clean && make install in staroffice's ports directory? Regards, Uli. On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Christopher Vance wrote: > I've been using staroffice52 on -STABLE for the last few weeks, > installing it off a genuine Sun CD and running with linux_base-6.1. > For a while it worked fine. (Didn't with linux_base-7, though.) > > I have in the last few days been attempting to upgrade gnome, kde, and > other packages from sources, mostly via portupgrade, and find that > staroffice has ceased to work. > > As part of a regular tidy-up, I removed my kde and gnome config files, > and the user part of the staroffice install, but now when I redo the > install-user part of staroffice, it always pretends to succeed, but > every time I attempt to start the program, it tells me that > user/sofficerc was not found, and tries to "repair" it. I say "yeah, > you do that", and it again pretends to work, leaving me in the same > state. > > Fearing I might have messed up some libraries in my obviously > misguided attempt to upgrade gnome & kde, I have since reinstalled the > older versions I got off the 4.4 CDROMs, as well as reinstalling > linux_base-6.1. Still no banana. I've also updated kernel and > modules, as of today, still to no avail. (The file that staroffice > says is missing is definitely visible to /compat/linux/bin/sh and to a > regular non-emulator shell, so I wonder if staroffice is getting > confused by one of its libraries.) > > I find I'm using or wanting to use a number of things which are done > using linux emulation, and I'm not confident it's doing the job right. > I had thought I'd finally found something to let me view and modify > documents people send me in <that-proprietary> format. > > Does anybody know what I should do here? Downgrade a particular > library? Install something else? Wordperfect? Openoffice? (Both of > these also seem to rely on linux emulation.) Panic? Give up and > install DeadRat (kidding, right? please)? > > -- > Christopher Vance > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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