Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 01:00:25 +0000 From: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1A Howto Message-ID: <381F8929.14BC40F8@freenet.co.uk> References: <19991102134031.B7641@intrepid.net> <381F44F9.B8688654@scc.nl>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > All in all a pleasant HOWTO, but a bit outdated and needlessly complex > :-) The HOWTO is correct. There seem to be a number of things that work differently in -stable. > I always installed SO without all this hassle. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH > always was enough: > > csh: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH . > sh: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH This worked for me on a -current system but not -stable. When I was installing SO5.1 on a -stable system, the setup program did not extract some of the libraries and therefore couldn't find them, even though LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set. Very strange. I had to extract the missing libraries just like described in the HOWTO. Reproduced on two -stable boxes. > > Modifications to the soffice Script > > ----------------------------------- > > > > First, change the line that defines "$test" from > > > > *) test=/usr/bin/test ;; > > > > to > > > > *) test=/bin/test ;; > > This is not needed for linux_base-5.2 Why not? The StarOffice script begins with the line: #!/bin/sh and therefore it will look for `test' in its real location and not /compat/linux. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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