Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 08:21:08 -0600 From: "Thomas Russo" <tvrusso@sandia.gov> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE Message-ID: <3B1501D4.3D3455C2@sandia.gov>
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jim Durham wrote: >On Sat, 26 May 2001, Francois Kritzinger wrote: >> [...] >> When I run soffice, it says that it can't find the file user/sofficerc, >> even though it IS there. >> [...] > > This is really evil, but here's how to fix it. I believe it a permission > problem of some sort.[...] Hmmmmm. That's a different evil work around than I was forced to use. If Jim's "fix" doesn't do the trick for you, maybe mine will. By the way, I posted on this subject to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc a few weeks ago, because I've seen the same question posed on several mailing lists and discussion forums, but never saw an answer. For a good laugh, do a google search on "sofficerc not found" some time, this problem's been around a while. I was getting the same error on three separate 4.2-RELEASE machines with similar configurations, and in the end tried: truss soffice >foo 2>&1 Sifting through the godzillion or so lines of that, I found that soffice was trying to open "/users/local/office52/program/applicat.rdb" --- despite the fact that StarOffice was installed in /usr/local/office52. /users is my user home directory partition. There was no configuration file *anywhere* that had /users/local in it. I never did figure out why that was happening, I did the "evil" thing: ln -s /usr/local /users/local Oddly enough, on a very similar machine at home that fix didn't work, and truss revealed that it was looking for applicat.rdb in /usr/./office52/program instead. The "evil" fix ln -s /usr/local/office52 /usr "fixed" it. I have been unable to figure out why three separate identical installations of StarOffice 5.2 (from the ports collection) would have two different broken behaviors. Nor have I bothered to figure it out after finding the work around. I guess I'll just wait for the OpenOffice source install to be ready, and pitch the linux binary version then. Note that in all these cases "fixing" the path to applicat.rdb ended the complaint that it couldn't find office52/user/sofficerc! Go figure. -- Thomas Russo * tvrusso@sandia.gov * Dept 1734, Component Information and Models * Mail Stop 0525, Sandia National Laboratories * Albuquerque, NM 87185-0525 * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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