Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:14:17 +1100 From: Christopher Vance <vance@aurema.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: staroffice52 Message-ID: <20020220181417.A13453@aurema.com>
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I've been using staroffice52 on -STABLE for the last few weeks, installing it off a genuine Sun CD and running with linux_base-6.1. For a while it worked fine. (Didn't with linux_base-7, though.) I have in the last few days been attempting to upgrade gnome, kde, and other packages from sources, mostly via portupgrade, and find that staroffice has ceased to work. As part of a regular tidy-up, I removed my kde and gnome config files, and the user part of the staroffice install, but now when I redo the install-user part of staroffice, it always pretends to succeed, but every time I attempt to start the program, it tells me that user/sofficerc was not found, and tries to "repair" it. I say "yeah, you do that", and it again pretends to work, leaving me in the same state. Fearing I might have messed up some libraries in my obviously misguided attempt to upgrade gnome & kde, I have since reinstalled the older versions I got off the 4.4 CDROMs, as well as reinstalling linux_base-6.1. Still no banana. I've also updated kernel and modules, as of today, still to no avail. (The file that staroffice says is missing is definitely visible to /compat/linux/bin/sh and to a regular non-emulator shell, so I wonder if staroffice is getting confused by one of its libraries.) I find I'm using or wanting to use a number of things which are done using linux emulation, and I'm not confident it's doing the job right. I had thought I'd finally found something to let me view and modify documents people send me in <that-proprietary> format. Does anybody know what I should do here? Downgrade a particular library? Install something else? Wordperfect? Openoffice? (Both of these also seem to rely on linux emulation.) Panic? Give up and install DeadRat (kidding, right? please)? -- Christopher Vance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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