[SuSE Linux] Staroffice help.
Hi all, I am running the commercial version of SuSE 5.2 and am currently downloading version 6.0 off the ftp site. I have also decided to take the plunge and be completely micro$oft free. in order to do this I have to get staroffice up and running (those uni assignments have to be written, and the compatibility with word is a very attractive feature, this way I can write part of them at uni if needed). Anyway, I understand that the ftp version of SuSE 6.0 doesn't come with staroffice. So my question is how do I go about installing staroffice from the version I will download from stardivision, using SuSE 6.0?? I am completely clueless as to where to start. If someone could give me some directions or even point me to some literature I would be really greatful, and there will be one less MS user out there! :) Cheers, Brad. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Brad Jones wrote:
Hi all, I am running the commercial version of SuSE 5.2 and am currently downloading version 6.0 off the ftp site. I have also decided to take the plunge and be completely micro$oft free. in order to do this I have to get staroffice up and running (those uni assignments have to be written, and the compatibility with word is a very attractive feature, this way I can write part of them at uni if needed). Anyway, I understand that the ftp version of SuSE 6.0 doesn't come with staroffice. So my question is how do I go about installing staroffice from the version I will download from stardivision, using SuSE 6.0?? I am completely clueless as to where to start. If someone could give me some directions or even point me to some literature I would be really greatful, and there will be one less MS user out there! :)
I would love someone to contradict me on this, but I can't seem to do it! It insists on changes to /lib to reflect glibc2.0.7. I don't trust those changes. Even when I did install it and get it to work once, it stopped working the next day. -- 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>>
So my question is how do I go about installing staroffice from the version I will download from stardivision, using SuSE 6.0??
I would love someone to contradict me on this, but I can't seem to do it!
It insists on changes to /lib to reflect glibc2.0.7. I don't trust those changes. Even when I did install it and get it to work once, it stopped working the next day.
Well, I got StarOffice 5.0 to work on a SuSE 6.0 without changing the SuSE installation. It seems to work fine so far (although I haven't tried it extensively yet). What I did is the following: at the beginning of installation StarOffice complains about not finding the glibc2.0.7 libs and recommends installing the ones supplied with StarOffice. Now instead of installing the libs I created links to the glibc libs that come with SuSE. StarOffice actually is able to work with the libs being only installed locally in the StarOffice install dir (e.g. in /opt/Office50/lib); it's mentioned somewhere in the README as far as I remember... So one solution would be to install the glibc libs that come with SO into that dir (ignoring the error message about /lib/ld-2.0.7 being incompatible). However, as it turned out it works with simple links, too. In essence, before installing StarOffice create the links in the StarOffice destination lib dir (I'll include a list with the links below). Then perform the StarOffice installation. It ran without troubles for me and StarOffice seems to work, too. Hope it helps... Andreas ------ snipp ----- % mkdir /opt/Office50/lib (or any other dir where you want to install SO) -s /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 libBrokenLocale-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libc.so.6 libc-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libcrypt.so.1 libcrypt-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libdb.so.2 libdb-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libdl.so.2 libdl-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libm.so.6 libm-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libnsl.so.1 libnsl-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libnss_compat.so.1 libnss_compat-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libnss_db.so.1 libnss_db-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libnss_dns.so.1 libnss_dns-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libnss_files.so.1 libnss_files-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libnss_nis.so.1 libnss_nis-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libpthread.so.0 libpthread-0.7.so -s /lib/libresolv.so.2 libresolv-2.0.7.so -s /lib/libutil.so.1 libutil-2.0.7.so - 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>>
Andreas Gerstlauer wrote:
So my question is how do I go about installing staroffice from the version I will download from stardivision, using SuSE 6.0??
I would love someone to contradict me on this, but I can't seem to do it!
It insists on changes to /lib to reflect glibc2.0.7. I don't trust those changes. Even when I did install it and get it to work once, it stopped working the next day.
Well, I got StarOffice 5.0 to work on a SuSE 6.0 without changing the SuSE installation. It seems to work fine so far (although I haven't tried it extensively yet).
[description snipped] OK, thanks, I'll try that. -- 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>>
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