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I recently Monday this week got the PCPLUS coverdisk contains Wordperf 8
some old Window managers .
no sign of any new Linux Distribs...
Surjit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Greenham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 February 1999 21:05
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Star Office 5.0
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Ralph Clark wrote:
>
> Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> > Ralph Clark 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.
> > >
> > > 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
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