Ralph Clark wrote:

Rachel Greenham wrote:

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Ralph Clark wrote:

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Rachel Greenham wrote:

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Has anyone else managed to install this on SuSE 6.0?

I have, as far as I can tell, now fully upgraded my machine to 6.0, which I'm given to understand is glibc2-based. I've downloaded StarOffice 5.0 and its installer is saying I don't have the right libraries - namely glibc2. I don't want to run the library installer that StarOffice supply as last time I did that I killed my machine stone dead - had to go for a complete reinstall.

I thought SuSE were now including StarOffice 5 - with presumably a suitable rpm or something - but I can find no sign of it on their site.

You've got to buy the CD-ROM distribution for that. Some things just aren't free.

However, SuSE as it stands seems to make it impossible to install a StarOffice obtained from any other source - ie: StarDivision directly. This was more my point.

-- Rachel

Sorry, I misunderstood you.

Star Division's own RPMs are probably for RedHat Linux and that's why SuSE have had to roll their own version, to suit the SuSE file system and libraries.

RPMs? hehe It's a tar file and complicated installation instructions. For what it's worth, I've actually done it. After a load of false starts, it turns out what I needed to do was to copy in a couple of stuff into /lib while running off a rescue disk, namely ld-2.0.7.so and a link to it ld-linux.so.2 (never mind that SuSE already has identically named files there, StarOffice wants its versions in there and nothing else seems to mind) and libc-2.0.7.so with libc.so.6 pointing to it, then run the rest of the glibc installation into StarOffice's own directory (default /opt/Office50/lib/) run the installer having set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the above, then run StarOffice *without* having set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Unbelievably difficult. One of those things that reminds me just how un-ready Linux is for the desktop. I'm now having problems as since upgrading from SuSE 6.0 beta to 6.0 proper, I've lost all printing capability. I'm sure I don't remember deinstalling printer support but /usr/bin/lpr and /etc/printcap have gone. I think I'll get the SuSE 6.0 CD. I want to blast this installation. I think I've got a lot of oddities because of upgrading from 6.0 beta rather than installing 6.0 from scratch. It comes out on a PC Plus coverdisk quite soon anyway, I hear. -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>