Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-06 Thread Wes Peters
pe...@taronga.com wrote: It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. Well, my copy calls this file libosl517li.so, and doing this sed trick on it just makes it exit without doing anything. Not doing it gives me the

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread peter
Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers to the freshly installed lib/libosl516li.so mv

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread peter
Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers to the freshly installed lib/libosl516li.so mv

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-05 Thread jack
The different results people are having may be a result of the date of their FreeBSD. It Works Here[tm] OOTB (setup requires the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set) with the following -current of about Aug 22nd -stable of Aug 26th -stable of Sep 2nd -stable of Sep 4th It does not work here with -current of

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Andre Albsmeier once wrote: Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers to the freshly installed

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB. AFAICT, there's absolutely no need for this kind

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB. AFAICT, there's

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Vince Vielhaber wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread brooks
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to the distribution without any apparent changes to the website. The new changes broke

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Carpathia
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. I tried it on the new new StarOffice (apparently) (libs ver 517) from Sun. This fix works for the user that installs it, but when anyone else

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to the distribution without any apparent changes to the

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
jack wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 marcel marcel 72192512 Jul 23 11:47 so51_lnx_01.tar MD5 (so51_lnx_01.tar) = 347ffa68be6c1d7b89fd843591afb0d3 so51a_lnx_01.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 jacko user 70393856 Aug 31 15:47 so51a_lnx_01.tar (libs are all libxxx517x.so) requires jumping throught the hoops

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Andrew J. Korty
Today Marcel Moolenaar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stabl e is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to the

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
"Andrew J. Korty" wrote: If it helps, I don't think you really need to unzip setup.zip. I found that setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. makes the setup program run just fine (because it actually does unzip setup.zip, but into a subdirectory of /tmp). Exactly what I always needed to do. It can't

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
jack wrote: Today Marcel Moolenaar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? The fact that soffice runs setup again and again depend to a missing

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: jack wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 marcel marcel 72192512 Jul 23 11:47 so51_lnx_01.tar MD5 (so51_lnx_01.tar) = 347ffa68be6c1d7b89fd843591afb0d3 so51a_lnx_01.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 jacko user 70393856 Aug 31 15:47 so51a_lnx_01.tar (libs are

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Vince Vielhaber: There was a patch posted on the freebsd.misc newsgroup the other day for I re-posted the patch for people not running -STABLE yes. procfs that eliminates the need for the "hackery". It's supposed to be already in -current and I don't recall if it's supposed to

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Andre Albsmeier once wrote: Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers to the freshly installed

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Andre Albsmeier once wrote: Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick described by Andre Albsmeier on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB. AFAICT, there's absolutely no need for this kind of

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB.

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB. AFAICT, there's

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Vince Vielhaber wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. What is

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread brooks
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to the distribution without any apparent changes to the website. The new changes broke things.

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Carpathia
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over instead of just starting the damn office. I tried it on the new new StarOffice (apparently) (libs ver 517) from Sun. This fix works for the user that installs it, but when anyone else

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
bro...@one-eyed-alien.net wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to the distribution without any apparent changes to

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread jack
Today Marcel Moolenaar wrote: bro...@one-eyed-alien.net wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to the

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
jack wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 marcel marcel 72192512 Jul 23 11:47 so51_lnx_01.tar MD5 (so51_lnx_01.tar) = 347ffa68be6c1d7b89fd843591afb0d3 so51a_lnx_01.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 jacko user 70393856 Aug 31 15:47 so51a_lnx_01.tar (libs are all libxxx517x.so) requires jumping throught the hoops

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Andrew J. Korty
Today Marcel Moolenaar wrote: bro...@one-eyed-alien.net wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stabl e is not recent? Is this true for BOTH versions of the tarball? Changes where made to

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Andrew J. Korty wrote: If it helps, I don't think you really need to unzip setup.zip. I found that setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. makes the setup program run just fine (because it actually does unzip setup.zip, but into a subdirectory of /tmp). Exactly what I always needed to do. It can't find

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
jack wrote: Today Marcel Moolenaar wrote: bro...@one-eyed-alien.net wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: SO5.1 installs OOTB on both -current and -stable. I suspect your -stable is not recent? The fact that soffice runs setup again and again depend to a

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: jack wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 marcel marcel 72192512 Jul 23 11:47 so51_lnx_01.tar MD5 (so51_lnx_01.tar) = 347ffa68be6c1d7b89fd843591afb0d3 so51a_lnx_01.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 jacko user 70393856 Aug 31 15:47 so51a_lnx_01.tar (libs are all

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Vince Vielhaber: There was a patch posted on the freebsd.misc newsgroup the other day for I re-posted the patch for people not running -STABLE yes. procfs that eliminates the need for the hackery. It's supposed to be already in -current and I don't recall if it's supposed to be

Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself. To run setup, you need to unzip the setup.zip (with the -L flag) and make all the libraries there known to the ld-linux.so. (I just added a new

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Teterin wrote: With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself. [snip] If Sun doesn't release the sources this month, I'll submit a port... I for

Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself. To run setup, you need to unzip the setup.zip (with the -L flag) and make all the libraries there known to the ld-linux.so. (I just added a new

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikhail Teterin wrote: With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself. [snip] If Sun doesn't release the sources this month, I'll submit a port... I for

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
wwo...@cybcon.com once wrote: Woulden't a port be the better option though? There are ports of Linux based Netscape... It would be, but I only have so much time. And if the source is available, I'd rather spend it poking around it. Or poke around something else (like