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Date:      Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:47:38 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   StarOffice Installation lossage (Was: Linux Emulator seems to be faulty)
Message-ID:  <14898.28730.700268.967612@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <130245032@toto.iv>

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O. Hartmann <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> types:
> Dear Sirs.
> 
> I installed StarOffice now successfully on several machines - but the
> target machines were freshly installed. I have still trouble installing 
> StarOffice 5.2 on the main server and the error seems really to be curious.
> 
> After the download the installationscript starts extraction and after
> determining the glibc-version of the Linux emulation (I got the newest
> stuff from the ports now) I receive an error message like this:
> 
> could not find shared library libvos1GCC.so
> 
> Nnormally, this library resides in /usr/local/office52/program. Obviously
> is the installation routine seeking for this lib before it is installed.
> How does it come? I search the whole tree for another lib like this bit
> there is no one else. 
> 
> It seems that something went wrong with my installation on the main server,
> but I can not simply reinstall all the stuff, so I have to look for the
> mistake by hand.
> 
> Has anybody ideas how to track down the problem or is this problem known?

I've seen this one myself. The StarOffice installation process is
dearchiving files in /tmp, then attempting to run using those files as
shared libraries. For some (unknown) reason, the dynamic linking fails
on some systems. It's hard to track down beyond that, because the
(*)&&(^% StarOffice installation process cleans up all the files you
need to diagnose it after the failure.

Anyway, the workaround is to make a package on one of the machines
you've got it installed on properly, then install the package. You can
then run ${PREFIX}/office52/program/soffice to do the per-user
installation process.

	<mike
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