[SuSE Linux] Star Office 5.0
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. -- 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>>
Rachel Greenham wrote:
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.
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2. There is info at: <A HREF="http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/"><A HREF="http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/</A">http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/</A</A>> If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3. - 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>>
Hi, On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice. Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - 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>>
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Hi Lenz, Is the glibc that comes with version 6.0 going to be version 2.06? I hope so. There seems to be alot of confusion. There seems to be a glibc1, and a glibc2, and the current version of glibc2 is 2.06. I know that you guys do the right thing, but there are so many people complaining about these library incompatibilities. - 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>>
zentara <zentara@mindspring.com> writes:
Is the glibc that comes with version 6.0 going to be version 2.06? I hope so.
I hope that it will be at least 2.07pre6 as this is the minimum level of this library required for kernel 2.2.x (according to the documentation), and Suse 6.0 claims to be 2.2 ready. - 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>>
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:17:27PM -0500, zentara wrote:
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Hi Lenz, Is the glibc that comes with version 6.0 going to be version 2.06? I hope so.
No, it is the latest snapshot from the CVS archive for 2.0.x.
There seems to be alot of confusion. There seems to be a glibc1, and a glibc2, and the current version of glibc2 is 2.06.
glibc1 is glibc 1.0.x, and libc5 based on it. glibc2 is the new glibc, aka libc.so.6 under Linux. The latest public release of glibc 2 is 2.0.6. There are some 2.0.7preX, but the real bug fixes are only in the CVS archive. Since glibc 2.1 should be released this days, the glibc-maintainer will not make a public 2.0.7. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk <A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~kukuk/"><A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~kukuk/</A">http://home.pages.de/~kukuk/</A</A>> kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background. - 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>>
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:17:27PM -0500, zentara wrote:
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Hi Lenz, Is the glibc that comes with version 6.0 going to be version 2.06? I hope so.
No, it is the latest snapshot from the CVS archive for 2.0.x.
There seems to be alot of confusion. There seems to be a glibc1, and a glibc2, and the current version of glibc2 is 2.06.
glibc1 is glibc 1.0.x, and libc5 based on it. glibc2 is the new glibc, aka libc.so.6 under Linux. The latest public release of glibc 2 is 2.0.6. There are some 2.0.7preX, but the real bug fixes are only in the CVS archive. Since glibc 2.1 should be released this days, the glibc-maintainer will not make a public 2.0.7.
That's interesting. Star Office requires *and supplies* 2.0.7. Hmm. -- Rachel Now even more confused - 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>>
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
glibc1 is glibc 1.0.x, and libc5 based on it. glibc2 is the new glibc, aka libc.so.6 under Linux. The latest public release of glibc 2 is 2.0.6. There are some 2.0.7preX, but the real bug fixes are only in the CVS archive. Since glibc 2.1 should be released this days, the glibc-maintainer will not make a public 2.0.7.
Lets say, Suse comes with glibc2.07, or whatever the latest snapshot is. When glibc2.1 comes out, will it be a simple matter of "copying over" the older glibc files? Is everything going to start being backward-compatible? Or will the shared libs from 2.06 need to be kept for software written with 2.06 in mind. In other words, are we going to have only 1 libc.so.6, or will there be libc.so.6, and libc.so.6.1, etc, etc. Also, why won't some elf executables that I made under Redhat 5.2, execute on SuSe5.3, even though I have installed the Shared Lib6 rpm on SuSE? Why aren't they totally compatible? If it's too complicated, just forget answering this. I'm fully resigned to waiting for 6.0 to come, and see how things go. - 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>>
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Umm. Doesn't work then. I had to do major mucking about to get StarOffice to work. See my previous postings. To sum up (again, but for your benefit as I'm sure SuSE would like to get this sorted out): StarOffice installer complained at glibc2 not being installed. I tried installing those libraries it listed as being wrong or missing into /lib (where there were existing versions) - their own installation instructions for this don't work - the automated one relies on a command "gldrinst" which doesn't appear to exist on SuSE, and their instructions for doing it manually crash the system (there's a point at which there is no libc at all and then you can't issue any useful commands whatsoever, you just have to wait for the disks to sync (hopefully) and reboot onto a rescue disk). I finally got it working by installing their versions of ld-linux.so.2 (a link to their ld-linux-2.0.7.so) and libc.so.6 (a link to their libc-2.0.7.so). I initially tried installing/updating the other libraries listed, but they caused major failures with various other stuff running under SuSE including NFS and PostGres - I can't remember the rest, but the incompatibility is with at least two of those libraries. I didn't test exhaustively which broke what (although reverting libutil.so.1 allowed KDM to work again) but rather just reverted the lot to get my working system back. :-) I'm quite prepared to believe that my problems are all down to my having initially installed 6.0 beta and then attempted via YAST to upgrade it to 6.0 when that came out. To which end I'm currently mirroring the 6.0 distribution here in order to blast the installation and start with a fresh 6.0. -- 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>>
Rachel Greenham wrote:
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, zentara wrote:
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Hold it. "glibc" and "glibc2" are two terms for the same thing, which is the new GNU C library (Version 2.x.x). This is what SuSE Linux 6.0 is based on and which is necessary for running StarOffice.
Umm. Doesn't work then. I had to do major mucking about to get StarOffice to work.
Actually, StarOffice has stopped working again, without any further changes to my setup. Crashes when you try to create a new document. Basically unstable IMHO. -- 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>>
zentara wrote:
Rachel Greenham wrote:
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.
I just received an email from a person who is using the German version of Suse 6.0. He said that it is glibc based, not glibc2. There is a difference. Apparently, Suse hasn't gotten around to making a rpm to upgrade to glibc2.
Ah
If anyone has info on the glibc vs. glibc2 situation and Suse 6.0, please share it. 6.0 should be arriving shortly and I want to be prepared to upgrade right away. It should be easy on 6.0 as opposed to 5.3.
Well, see my previous - I *think* I've done the upgrade. I *think* I may now be on glibc2 - at least as regards the core library (libc-2.0.7.so linked to from libc.so.6) and the loader (ld-linux.so.etc) but not the other libraries, that form the glibc2 installation from StarOffice - one or more of those causes a number of bad failures in the rest of the SuSE system. Many services fail to start. -- Rachel Still to get round to making a .sig file - 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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graham＠barnowl.demon.co.uk -
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zentara＠mindspring.com