Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
Great, it works now. Add me to your list of people for whom it works! The only problem I have know is that on startup, StarOffice pops a dialog saying "Error opening document /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: Nonexistent object. Filter not found." I click OK, and everthing works fine. Later, Wim. "eric a. Farris" wrote: See my message posted to the list on Monday; i had the same problem and fixed it. Basically you have to do the same thing with xlib6g as you did with glib. (that is, extract it from the .deb manually, put it someplace, add someplace to soffice's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of > spelling errors, as noted below. > > Here are the errors I still get: > > SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/ > SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice > /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero > SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ > > Any idea why? Do you know if anyone has made up a howto page yet? > > Wim > www.canadianhomes.net/wim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- SNIP> -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support Specialist Academic Computing Frostburg State University www.frostburg.edu This message composed in an MFCE (Microsoft Free Computing Environment) Will work for happiness. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim begin:vcard n:Kerkhoff;Wim tel;fax:604-795-2935 tel;home:604-795-7419 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim adr:;;43810 Chilliwack Mountain Road;Chilliwack;BC;V2R 4A1;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Student note:http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim x-mozilla-cpt:;-960 fn:Wim Kerkhoff end:vcard
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of
spelling errors, as noted below.
Here are the errors I still get:
SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/
SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice
/usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero
SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$
Any idea why? Do you know if anyone has made up a howto page yet?
Wim
www.canadianhomes.net/wim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Brad wrote:
That's pretty close to the system i came up with, i was just waiting to
hear back if it worked for anyone else before i claimed i solved the
problem ;)
Let's see... diffs. psetup works for me without patching, did you try
that? Also, if you put the glibc 2.0 libs into ${StarOffice}/lib you don't
have to change the packages scripts at all. The extra '/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2'
in the very last line to exec the soffice.bin is unnecessary once the
binary itself is patched to call the correct lib loader, and that fixes
the system() call to /bin/sh and the error on startup that it can't find
the file $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary.
i think i will write that mini-HOWTO, although it might be a few days
[weeks] before i can get anything done on it...
The directions i have currently are attached. Given your post, i think
they work for at least 2 people. Out of the alpha stage now. Bug reports
to this address.
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Bernard de Rubinat wrote:
I got into the same trouble as many people who tried to get staroffice
5.0(1?) to work with glibc2.1. I also did try many things I have seen, and I
also had many failures to make it work with most recepes,
BUT I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK.
Here is a recipe I made out of my various attemps. I made a simplified
version of all my attemps, so I may be wrong somewhere, but hopefuly it is
correct.
1/ mkdir /tmp
2/ get libc6_2.0.7.*.deb from a debian ftp mirror (slink).
3/ ar -x libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb
4/ tar xvzf data.tar.gz
5/ mkdir /usr/local/glibc2.0
6/ cp -a lib/* /usr/local/glibc2.0
7/ ln -s /usr/local/glibc2.0/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2
8/ cd /full/path/to/Office/lib
^^^
'lib' should be 'bin'
9a/ mv soffice.bin soffice.bin.orig
9b/ mv setup.bin setup.bin.orig
9c/ mv psetup.bin psetup.bin.orig
10a/ cat soffice.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
soffice.bin # this is a single line or use '\'
10b/ cat setup.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
setup.bin # this is a single line or use '\'
10c/ cat psetup.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
psetup.bin# this is a single line or use '\'
11/ update the /full/path/to/Office/bin/soffice script
change :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
into :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc20/:$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
^^^
Their should be a '.': glibc2.0
and change :
exec $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8
$9
into :
/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
$6 $7 $8 $9
Hope this helps. If this helps, does anyone feel to write a mini-HOWTO?
Best regards,
Bernard
--- here is a post not beloging to this list ---
Subject: Star Office with Glibc 2.1 (howto doit and what is broken)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 07:27:27 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: stardivision.com.support.misc
The instructions have already been posted to this group, but here they are
again (with more details).
You can get already installed soffice to work by doing the following:
1) cd /full/path/to/Office/lib
2) tar xfz glibc2.tar.gz
3) mv glib*/* . ; rmdir glib*
4) cd ../bin
5) emacs *.bin
6) using overwrite mode change /lib/ld-linux.so.2 to /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 in
all binaries
7) ln -s /full/path/to/Office/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2
After this soffice starts and works as it should.
Unfortunately soffice uses system() call, which execvp /bin/sh, when
printing (even to file) and thus the printing does not work. I tried to
patch the libc itself (changed /bin/sh in the library to /old/sh, copied sh,
cat and lpr to /old and patched them as well. Also soffice starting script
must be edited. After this printing to file does not give errors, but
results to empty file. Normal printing still tries to exec /usr/bin/lpr for
some reason).
---
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:35 -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Brad wrote:
By putting together ideas from a few posts here and in linux-kernel,
i've
managed to get StarOffice 5.01 working on my Potato box. Now, i have
two
problems:
1) i know it works on my box. But
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
See my message posted to the list on Monday; i had the same problem and fixed it. Basically you have to do the same thing with xlib6g as you did with glib. (that is, extract it from the .deb manually, put it someplace, add someplace to soffice's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of spelling errors, as noted below. Here are the errors I still get: SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/ SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ Any idea why? Do you know if anyone has made up a howto page yet? Wim www.canadianhomes.net/wim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SNIP -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support Specialist Academic Computing Frostburg State University www.frostburg.edu This message composed in an MFCE (Microsoft Free Computing Environment) Will work for happiness.
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution (?)
I got into the same trouble as many people who tried to get staroffice 5.0(1?) to work with glibc2.1. I also did try many things I have seen, and I also had many failures to make it work with most recepes, BUT I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK. Here is a recipe I made out of my various attemps. I made a simplified version of all my attemps, so I may be wrong somewhere, but hopefuly it is correct. 1/ mkdir /tmp 2/ get libc6_2.0.7.*.deb from a debian ftp mirror (slink). 3/ ar -x libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb 4/ tar xvzf data.tar.gz 5/ mkdir /usr/local/glibc2.0 6/ cp -a lib/* /usr/local/glibc2.0 7/ ln -s /usr/local/glibc2.0/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 8/ cd /full/path/to/Office/lib 9a/ mv soffice.bin soffice.bin.orig 9b/ mv setup.bin setup.bin.orig 9c/ mv psetup.bin psetup.bin.orig 10a/ cat soffice.bin.orig |sed -e 's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \ soffice.bin # this is a single line or use '\' 10b/ cat setup.bin.orig |sed -e 's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \ setup.bin # this is a single line or use '\' 10c/ cat psetup.bin.orig |sed -e 's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \ psetup.bin # this is a single line or use '\' 11/ update the /full/path/to/Office/bin/soffice script change : LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH into : LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc20/:$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH and change : exec $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 into : /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 Hope this helps. If this helps, does anyone feel to write a mini-HOWTO? Best regards, Bernard --- here is a post not beloging to this list --- Subject: Star Office with Glibc 2.1 (howto doit and what is broken) Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 07:27:27 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: stardivision.com.support.misc The instructions have already been posted to this group, but here they are again (with more details). You can get already installed soffice to work by doing the following: 1) cd /full/path/to/Office/lib 2) tar xfz glibc2.tar.gz 3) mv glib*/* . ; rmdir glib* 4) cd ../bin 5) emacs *.bin 6) using overwrite mode change /lib/ld-linux.so.2 to /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 in all binaries 7) ln -s /full/path/to/Office/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 After this soffice starts and works as it should. Unfortunately soffice uses system() call, which execvp /bin/sh, when printing (even to file) and thus the printing does not work. I tried to patch the libc itself (changed /bin/sh in the library to /old/sh, copied sh, cat and lpr to /old and patched them as well. Also soffice starting script must be edited. After this printing to file does not give errors, but results to empty file. Normal printing still tries to exec /usr/bin/lpr for some reason). --- On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:35 -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Brad wrote: By putting together ideas from a few posts here and in linux-kernel, i've managed to get StarOffice 5.01 working on my Potato box. Now, i have two problems: 1) i know it works on my box. But what about anyone else's? 2) If it does work, what do i do to let people know how to do it? Just letting it sit on my hard drive unused by anyone else doesn't sound too appealing... 2) How about writing a 'SO5 and glic2.1 Mini- HOWTO'? Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 947212 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
That's pretty close to the system i came up with, i was just waiting to
hear back if it worked for anyone else before i claimed i solved the
problem ;)
Let's see... diffs. psetup works for me without patching, did you try
that? Also, if you put the glibc 2.0 libs into ${StarOffice}/lib you don't
have to change the packages scripts at all. The extra '/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2'
in the very last line to exec the soffice.bin is unnecessary once the
binary itself is patched to call the correct lib loader, and that fixes
the system() call to /bin/sh and the error on startup that it can't find
the file $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary.
i think i will write that mini-HOWTO, although it might be a few days
[weeks] before i can get anything done on it...
The directions i have currently are attached. Given your post, i think
they work for at least 2 people. Out of the alpha stage now. Bug reports
to this address.
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Bernard de Rubinat wrote:
I got into the same trouble as many people who tried to get staroffice
5.0(1?) to work with glibc2.1. I also did try many things I have seen, and I
also had many failures to make it work with most recepes,
BUT I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK.
Here is a recipe I made out of my various attemps. I made a simplified
version of all my attemps, so I may be wrong somewhere, but hopefuly it is
correct.
1/ mkdir /tmp
2/ get libc6_2.0.7.*.deb from a debian ftp mirror (slink).
3/ ar -x libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb
4/ tar xvzf data.tar.gz
5/ mkdir /usr/local/glibc2.0
6/ cp -a lib/* /usr/local/glibc2.0
7/ ln -s /usr/local/glibc2.0/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2
8/ cd /full/path/to/Office/lib
9a/ mv soffice.bin soffice.bin.orig
9b/ mv setup.bin setup.bin.orig
9c/ mv psetup.bin psetup.bin.orig
10a/ cat soffice.bin.orig |sed -e
's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
soffice.bin # this is a single line or use '\'
10b/ cat setup.bin.orig |sed -e 's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g' \
setup.bin # this is a single line or use '\'
10c/ cat psetup.bin.orig |sed -e 's#/lib/ld-linux.so.2#/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2#g'
\
psetup.bin# this is a single line or use '\'
11/ update the /full/path/to/Office/bin/soffice script
change :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
into :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc20/:$sd_inst/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and change :
exec $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8
$9
into :
/lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
$6 $7 $8 $9
Hope this helps. If this helps, does anyone feel to write a mini-HOWTO?
Best regards,
Bernard
--- here is a post not beloging to this list ---
Subject: Star Office with Glibc 2.1 (howto doit and what is broken)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 07:27:27 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: stardivision.com.support.misc
The instructions have already been posted to this group, but here they are
again (with more details).
You can get already installed soffice to work by doing the following:
1) cd /full/path/to/Office/lib
2) tar xfz glibc2.tar.gz
3) mv glib*/* . ; rmdir glib*
4) cd ../bin
5) emacs *.bin
6) using overwrite mode change /lib/ld-linux.so.2 to /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2 in
all binaries
7) ln -s /full/path/to/Office/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-2.0.7.so.2
After this soffice starts and works as it should.
Unfortunately soffice uses system() call, which execvp /bin/sh, when
printing (even to file) and thus the printing does not work. I tried to
patch the libc itself (changed /bin/sh in the library to /old/sh, copied sh,
cat and lpr to /old and patched them as well. Also soffice starting script
must be edited. After this printing to file does not give errors, but
results to empty file. Normal printing still tries to exec /usr/bin/lpr for
some reason).
---
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:35 -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Brad wrote:
By putting together ideas from a few posts here and in linux-kernel, i've
managed to get StarOffice 5.01 working on my Potato box. Now, i have two
problems:
1) i know it works on my box. But what about anyone else's?
2) If it does work, what do i do to let people know how to do it? Just
letting it sit on my hard drive unused by anyone else doesn't sound
too appealing...
2) How about writing a 'SO5 and glic2.1 Mini- HOWTO'?
Christian Lavoie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
UIN: 947212
Thanks to Dave Cinege from linux-kernel and Tor Slettnes from debian-user
for giving me the idea on how to do this.
First, install StarOffice with the /net option as
described by Tor:
- Create a directory named /usr/local/slink, and get and untar the
following file in there:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz
- Get and untar 'so501_01.tar' into /usr/local/slink/tmp
# cd /usr/local/slink/tmp
# tar xvf
Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution
[Lengthy instructions for tricking Star Office 5.0[1] into executing on a glibc2.1 system deleted] I'd like to know if *ANYONE* out there has gotten Star Office 5 to *PRINT* on a potato system running glibc2.1??? If so, would you please post your recipe to this list. **EXECUTING** Star Office is of little value to (most) people, if you CANNOT PRINT FROM IT!! Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
