hiya,
One does not have to install any lib files that stardivision packages
with the downloadable StarOffice 5 if you have SuSE 6.0. I installed the
version off the SuSE 6.0 cd and it worked fine, I then later ordered the
Deluxe version with the filter updates from Stardivision. I ordered it
partly because I have a connection that makes downloading 65+ megs a
pain in the bum...and partly because anyone who makes nice apps for
Linux I want to support. I never minded paying a fair price for good
software, I switched to Linux because I was tired of unstable crapware.
SOffice 5.0+filter updates works fine..no new lib files installed.
If you have 6.0, don't worry about it..those libs are for people who
have older distros.
just my 0.02 :)
laters,
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Chris Dunn wrote:
> > Also the linker ld-2.0.7.so is supplied in a different version with
> > each programme. SO5 insist that their version of these libraries and the linker
> > should be used with SO5, but I can find no way of installing using their
> > libraries without tampering with things on my SuSE installation which I fear may
> > corrupt SuSE.
> >
> > Has anybody successfully overcome these issues? Pointers would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> No. And what I don't understand is, why do the StarDivision people even
> bother giving you those libraries anyway? I mean, they want you to set the
> library path to include their library directory -- and *first* in the path
> -- therefore, if some program you want to run was compiiled for a
> different libc version, it won't. What they *should* have done was write a
> script which copies the current library path into a new variable, changes
> it, runs the install/office-suite ; changes it back. Any flaws in my
> logic? If not, try it out.
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