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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
>
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