Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:27:43 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: StarOffice 5.2, User Installation, the 1E6th question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021303010.16105-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs, Yes, I already read the FAQ, yes, I consulted www.staroffice.com at SUN, yes, I read all the threads concerning installations on FreeBSD, yes, I tried all the described way but I never have had success as decribed there! So, pleade allow me to ask a further question, the 1001st question in this subject. I received StarOffice5.2 (German) from the ports collection. Then I cd'ed into the ports directory and made 'make all && make install'. After setting the DISPLAY variable I could make a complete install and the script informed me that a complete network installation has been taken place. Yes, that sounds good ... I thought. But I thought wrong. I tried then as a normal user (non-root) to install a custom-user installation, but it did not work as decribed in those many FAQs. I tried the following scenarios: 1. switched to the users home directory, then typed PATH_TO_SOFFICE/setup, no success, the installation routine either tells me that soffice52 is already installed or it reports an error not finding /usr/local/soffcie52/users/sofficerc and wants to repair something that must fail due to the lack of root privileges. 2. I created a directory ~/office52 and tried step 1. again 3. I tried step 1. and 2. again, but this time I called the Makefile of the port with the option install-user, but it offers the same result as mentioned above. 4. I tried to apply a destination path where to install, but this fails. At this point, I did not follow ONLY the way as suggested by the authors of the installation scripts, but doing this sucks the same way as trying some 'nearby paths'. Can anyone help? Is there a way to set up a user under FreeBSD? I need to do this for up to 20 stations so I prefere an autmated way as the script should provide it (I do not beggar for solutions, I need some kind of input what's going wrong ... I already have some automated installscripts, but they do not work due the main fasult of the port ...). Thanks in advance, Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 Tel: +496131/3924152 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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