> > So my question is how do I go about installing staroffice
> > from the version I will download from stardivision, using SuSE 6.0??
>
> I would love someone to contradict me on this, but I can't seem to do
> it!
>
> It insists on changes to /lib to reflect glibc2.0.7. I don't trust those
> changes. Even when I did install it and get it to work once, it stopped
> working the next day.
>
Well, I got StarOffice 5.0 to work on a SuSE 6.0 without changing the
SuSE installation. It seems to work fine so far (although I haven't
tried it extensively yet).
What I did is the following: at the beginning of installation StarOffice
complains about not finding the glibc2.0.7 libs and recommends installing
the ones supplied with StarOffice. Now instead of installing the libs
I created links to the glibc libs that come with SuSE. StarOffice actually
is able to work with the libs being only installed locally in the StarOffice
install dir (e.g. in /opt/Office50/lib); it's mentioned somewhere in the
README as far as I remember... So one solution would be to
install the glibc libs that come with SO into that dir (ignoring the
error message about /lib/ld-2.0.7 being incompatible). However, as it
turned out it works with simple links, too.
In essence, before installing StarOffice create the links in the StarOffice
destination lib dir (I'll include a list with the links below). Then
perform the StarOffice installation. It ran without troubles for me
and StarOffice seems to work, too.
Hope it helps...
Andreas
------ snipp -----
% mkdir /opt/Office50/lib (or any other dir where you want to install SO)
% cd /opt/Office50/lib
% ln -s /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ld-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 libBrokenLocale-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libc.so.6 libc-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libcrypt.so.1 libcrypt-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libdb.so.2 libdb-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libdl.so.2 libdl-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libm.so.6 libm-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libnsl.so.1 libnsl-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libnss_compat.so.1 libnss_compat-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libnss_db.so.1 libnss_db-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libnss_dns.so.1 libnss_dns-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libnss_files.so.1 libnss_files-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libnss_nis.so.1 libnss_nis-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libpthread.so.0 libpthread-0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libresolv.so.2 libresolv-2.0.7.so
% ln -s /lib/libutil.so.1 libutil-2.0.7.so
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