Ben,
Thanks but I think my problem is that the SO5 I have is a givewaway cd that
came with a UK magazine. That seems to be the reason it will not compile on
SuSE 6.0. Certainly you should expect the version that came on a commercial
version of SuSE 6.0 to work and I'm sure you'd rightly be prety p'd off if it
didn't.
Roy Culley has suggested downloading 5.01 which is said to be compatible with
SuSE 6.0. As a a born cheapskate, I guess I'll try that route first before
thinking of buying more cds.
Chris Dunn
on 6th April Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> The SOffice 5.0 is on the SuSE 6.0 commercial box set. You would just
> install it via yast..but all yast does is make an install dir and
> uncompress the files..you run the setup as you would from the downloaded
> version or from the cd set that you can get from stardivision. I would be
> that it is something with in the original install of SuSE that you either
> checked or did not check ..if this is a major point with you, I would
> reinstall by passing a format of you home partition..and just redoing the
> others. As I had said..it any incarnation of SO5 I have not had a problem
> with SuSE 6.0 or Deadrat 5.2, but I chose SuSE for it's admin
> capabilities. Did you run ldconfig as root to make sure all your links
> were correct?? If this does not work..mail me back and let me know what
> the output is..and I will try to find an answer for you ASAP :)
> laters,
> -----
> Ben Rosenberg
> ----------------||---------------------
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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Chris Dunn wrote:
>
> Benjamin,
>
> Thanks for the input, but sorry, but this does not work for me.
>
> Initially SO5 setup reports a heap of missing libraries and set up exits.
When
> I extract the missing libraries from the SO5/glibc2 package the problem is
> partially resolved. However, SO5 setup does not recognise
> the existing SuSE version of the libraries libBrokenLocale and libpthread.
>
> Setting links to the SuSES libraries as though they are the ones SO5 setup is
> searching for does not help as SO5 setup refuses to recognise them.
>
> Your reference to "the version off the SuSE cd rings an alarm bell. My SO5 is
> not from the SuSE cd but from another (cd) source. Presumably the SO5 version
on
> the SuSE cd is cleansed for use with SuSE.
>
> Now, how to get hold of a copy of that?
>
> Is it worth the effort?
>
> Chris Dunn
>
> On 06-Apr-99 Benjamin A. Rosenberg wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Ben Rosenberg
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > " Powered by SuSE Linux "
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