Okay. Much to my surprise, it appears that OpenOffice does not run on OBSD. I noticed that it does run on FreeBSD, but since I am a noob to BSD (I know nothing about freebsd and next to nothing about OBSD), I have no idea how those systems differ. I have read scattered threads here and other places that it is possible to run OpenOffice through linux emulation.
So, I spent the last few hours looking into linux emulation. I have printed out all of the docs, and have them in a binder. I have been reading straight through as I build my system. I didn't see much about the appropriate way to set up linux emulation (It is briefly mentioned in chapter 9.4 of the Docs). I have poked around the net, and could not find anything recent on the issue, so finally I found a man page on my obsd 3.6 system that discussed it: compat_linux. I have done my best to make certain I have followed its recommendations, but it is a bit sparse with regards to what steps to take here. I have used ports to install redhat libraries. I have edited my /etc/sysctl.conf and uncommented "kern.emul.linux=1". Now, there is some mention about using procfs in that man page, and I have sniffed all over the internet. I can find nothing conclusive on *how* to use it for this purpose. There is no /proc in BSD. There is no /emul/linux/proc either. I don't know if there is a file/image somewhere that I am supposed to mount, or if I just mount proc to proc. Should I make a /proc and/or a /emul/linux/proc? I beleive I understand the syntax, I just don't know what arguments to use, where to mount it or what to mount. For shits and giggles, I did made a /proc and a /emul/linux/proc and did this: mount_procfs -o linux /proc /proc; mount_procfs -o linux /emul/linux/proc /emul/linux/proc. I have no idea how close this is to anything useful. I sacrificed my OO on my Gentoo linux system. I completely uninstalled it because it was compiled for an Athlon system and I didn't want to introduce more vairables than necessary since this is my first time with linux emu. I downloaded the standard i386 binary installer for OO, and installed it. I tared that up, and scp'd it to my OBSD box. I ucompressed the tarball under /emul/linux/usr/OpenOffice. I cd to that directory, and I find the link to the executable. I issue this command: "./soffice". My hard drive starts crunching for a few seconds, then it bombs out, complaining that it cannot find "libXext.so.6". Now, I know I have that file on my system, it lives here: /usr/local/redhat/emul/usr/X11R6/lib -- which sound right to me. My confusion: 1) I don't know if there is supposed to be some environmental variable to set a path for linux executables. Is that what I am missing? 2) I don't know if this is symptomatic of not understanding the whole "procfs" issue above. 3) I don't know if my system even knows that this is a *linux* application.. I assume the kernel knows the difference here... Am I supposed to run it through an emulation command first (like wine)? 4) Some other factor that I am completely unaware of. I am trying here. I am doing my homework but I am coming up dry. Can someone please help? Thanks. Chris
