Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: > > >> I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All > > >> seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user > > >setup > > >> bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other > > >> binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of > > >> course, and then complains about the user setup not being done. > > >> > > >> Running a Hamm system that is about a week old since the last > > >update. > > > > > >Quick hack to make it work > > > > > >rename /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/X11R6/libx > > >run the staroffice setup > > >rename /usr/X11R6/libx to /usr/X11R6/lib > > > > Would there be anything wrong with just making a symbolic link? And > > leaveing it there (in case there are any other hair-brained apps > > looking for a funny lib.... > > The problem is that the setup program is finding the xlib6g libs there, > which causes it a problem since it needs the regular xlib6 libs. Renaming > the directory moves the xlib6g stuff completely out of ld.so's path. This > will, of course, break running new X stuff until the directory is put > back, but it allows the setup program to find the correct libraries in > /usr/lib/libc5-compat
This looks like the same growing pains problems that we had 3-4 months ago with X11 in hamm. Wasn't there a perl script that you could run on binaries to scratch out the /usr/X11R6/lib directory from the `rpath'? If that works, maybe the debian installer package could do something similar. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .