From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 20 10:23:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B1137B420 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:23:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.20.224.219] (helo=mrvdom03.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16dbOJ-0005AL-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:22:55 +0100 Received: from [217.80.199.171] (helo=pD950C7AB.dip.t-dialin.net) by mrvdom03.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16dbOJ-00026y-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:22:55 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:23:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: Christopher Vance Cc: Subject: Re: staroffice52 In-Reply-To: <20020220181417.A13453@aurema.com> Message-ID: <20020220191823.K2304-100000@pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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