From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 9: 4:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.hsag.com (gate.hsag.com [209.180.144.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69FD437B7F4 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from SWorthington@hsag.com) Received: (qmail 10299 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2000 16:45:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO internal.hsag.com) (192.168.83.9) by 192.168.83.5 with SMTP; 9 Mar 2000 16:45:47 -0000 Received: from AZPRO-Message_Server by internal.hsag.com with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:08:37 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.2.1 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:08:17 -0700 From: "Scott Worthington" To: , Subject: Re: Continued StarOffice Install Issues Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your problem may be that you are using 3.4-Release instead of 3.4-Stable. You should CVS your machine to get the latest patches for the PORTS, and update your system. Here's the URL for the instructions to get the stable release: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html If you are unfamiliar with getting your machine to the latest stable setting, here's another URL for your reading: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP Next, it would be best to recompile the OS: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html=20 And recompile your kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html After you've CVSUP'ed the newest ports, you can go into the StarOffice5 ports directory and 'make install' The latest updates to StarOffice5 should work--it did for me on for my AMD K2/400 workstation and ThinkPad at home over a dial-up modem connection to my ISP. >>> "[gill]" 03/09/00 09:40AM >>> Well, there ain't much in the archives I haven't read already about this. = =20 I do suspect I'm missing something in my FreeBSD 3.4-R install, but I'm not sure what. I found posts about including POSIX compliance in my kernel which I had not done before, but it hasn't seemed to make a difference in my install difficulties. I am interested in hearing any suggestions or comments on how to get StarOffice installed. Here's a brief synopsis: FreeBSD 3.4-Release /etc/rc.conf has linux_enable=3D"YES" (thanks, sysinstall) kernel has POSIX options:"P1003_1B" "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" "_KPOSIX_VERSION=3D199309L" running gnome-1.0.53 running enlightenment-0.16.3 running perl 5.005_03=09 I 'su'd and moved to the /usr/ports/editors/staroffice5 dir to 'make distclean' and 'rm -R /home/myuser/Office51' to clean up what I'd already done. I recreated the /ports/distfiles/staroffice5/ and put the .tar file from Sun in there. I did 'make install' and watched. eventually the X11 portion of the install started. I clicked through that with no trouble but perl warnings* showed up in the terminal after the installer window closed. Once I was presented with a root prompt again I did 'make post-install' and got the same perl warnings* again but no other errors. Then I dropped out of 'su' to my user account and did 'make install-user' and the user version of the GUI installer started up. Everything seemed to go fine, the files copied, the status bar churned up to 99% and the installer hangs, dies, the window never refreshes and the installer never recovers. Trying to run the ~/Office51/bin/soffice link does nothing. Pounding my fist on my desk does nothing. Swearing, however loudly, seems to create a fine mist that covers the front glass of my monitor ... oh to be composing this in my shiny new office suite. for a *very* detailed description of what I'm doing and how, see the message I posted a couple of days ago to this list or email me privately and I'll forward it to you. * These are the perl warnings I keep getting, I'm not sure what to do to correct them perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL =3D (unset) LC_CTYPE =3D "en_US" LANG =3D (unset) are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). TIA, --gill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message