Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Tue Sep 23 1997, "Linux.org Albania SysAdm (Kledi)" wrote:
>
> (...who is very unwisely using the root account at linux.org.al for
> ordinary email purposes...)
>
> > I've got Star Office 4, Service Pack 3. I've encountered a problem
> > installing it. I'm running RH 5.1. When I execute setup it displays a
> > dialog containing:
> >
> > line 1: Syntax error at token "I" expected declarator. Ex. File...
>
> The problem occurs because of libc5-glibc6 conflicts... SO4.03 was compiled
> using libc5 and RH5.1 is a glibc6 system.
>
> If you had read the pdf/html files that come along with SO, then you would
> already know that this is a known problem that you would run into.
>
> There is a solution.
>
> > I checked through it and at the firt line of it's installation script it
> > contains (install.ins):
> >
> > Installation INSTALLATION
> >
> > and the first capital "I" is what it considers a syntax error. What could
> > be causing this? Any solutions?
> >
> > I could install it few months ago, but now... It doesn't work.
>
> In the contrib subdirectories at ftp.redhat.com you'll find an rpm called
> "staroffice-wrapper". By using this, installing SO4.03 onto my own RH5.1
> system (and then using it) was made very simple.
>
> There are also some web pages around the net that describe how to do it
> manually. (But the rpm automated the entire process and it worked
> flawlessly).
>
> But after all the hassles of installing it I was very quickly
> disappointed... it *still* doesn't understand word-8 (office-97) files, and
> this is the standard word-file format used all over the campus here :-(
> (It also doesn't understand excel files from m$o97 either).
>
There is a program called msconvert (GNU) that convert Word 97 files to word
95.
>
>
>
> Good news is that the latest Applixware can understand m$o97, so I'll be
> taking the boss out for a "liquid lunch" very soon to try to talk him into
> getting it for us... :)
>
> Cheers .
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