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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 09:18:03 -0400
From:      Chris Griffiths <cgriffiths@dca.net>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice: Linux binary won't run
Message-ID:  <20020502091803.A14706@dca.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020502090411.A98157@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:04:11AM -0400
References:  <20020502090411.A98157@blackhelicopters.org>

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Michael Lucas (mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) wrote:
> I have OpenOffice installed, and keep running into this issue.

Which version of OpenOffice are you running, I have OO 1.0 installed now
on a 4.5-stable machine running linux_base 6.1.  

I have found that all versions of OO up until 1.0 have never installed
correctly and have either segfaulted or crapped out during install.  

> When I run soffice, I get a notice that "the script file is being
> read."  Rather than opening a program, I get the "repair/deinstall"
> screen.

Check to make sure that your .sversionrc is pointing towards your
install.  

Also I usually install OO or SO6 as root doing the following:

# ./setup -net 

I then point my install to /usr/local/openoffice and install everything
there.

When that is done I go back to my user and cd to the install directory
and run

bash-2.05a$ ./setup 

as my user and install the network install which is about 4-5 megs for
OO in my home directory /home/useraccount/openoffice.  

You may want to make some symlinks to each programs to make things
easier like:

bash-2.05a$ cd /home/useraccount/openoffice
bash-2.05a$ ln -s /usr/local/openoffice/program/swriter swriter

You can do this for swriter, simpress, scalc, sdraw, etc.

Then just add /home/useraccount/openoffice to your path and you can then
issue:

bash-2.05a$ swriter 

and it comes up.  

Anyway hope that helps.  OO 1.0 is the only install I have been able to
get running so if you are not working with that version I suggest you
try it.

Chris


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