"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
>
> --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well,
> here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took
> me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT
> exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it
> unzipped. I opened the setup.zip file with karchiver and unzipped to a
> directory in my /home directory I ended up with 40 files in a so51
> directory. At the bottom of the heap is a SETUP.BIN (exe. gear) . I have
> set permissions but the gear does nothing. In fact none of the files do
> anything. Now, before the flames roll in, let me just say this. I have
> succesfully installed both rpm's and tar's on this system. Also I did read
> the .pdf file that came with the download, and it was of absolutely no
> help. I also would like to point out that I have not been able to make SO
> work since version 4.0. I keep trying because if us Linux users didn't
> like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten
> this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies
> out there, unwilling to concede.
>
Did you get the glibc2 version? If you're running RH or Mandrake,
you need this. Also there is another dir of glibc2 stuff you need to
install first.
If not, it won't work. Read the install instrucs on thier website to
make sure you did this.
If you did, I don't have a clue.
Alan
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