Re: Star Office

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, jason.k wrote:

> I've just got Star Office 5.1 from those nice people at Sun. Installed as
> per readme etc. on out-of-the-box Slack 4.0 which is ok as-per readme. When
> I run the soffice file to start it returns a Segmentation Fault with no
> other detail. I'm newish to unix/linux so forgive me for the lack of
> detail but I can't find anything more helpfull. Any suggestions?.

This is SO freaky! I'm installing it right this moment, I got my free cdrom
through the post a number of days ago and installed it on my Ultra10 (Sparc
Solaris) at work, it's pretty impressive on such nice hardware.

I too am a Slackware4 user and so know that it's quirks, it's glibc2
compatibility leaves something to be desired and so I knew I'd need to use
the SO5.1 supplied install of that. It's in linux/misc/glibc2/ (paths
relative to your cdrom mount point) I extracted it to ${HOME}/ as just the
directory glibc2 and then before running linux/office51/setup set
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ${HOME}/glibc2. This worked find and let the rather
attractive install continue.

Once it had installed (I chose to install as my userid in ${HOME}/Office51
which was what it suggested), I ran ${HOME}/Office51/bin/soffice and up it
popped (note that this was in the same shell with the changed LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and infact I'll always need to set that before executing soffice, so a
wrapper script would be a good idea), it's pretty nice but then I've followed
SO since version 3, which was quite a while back and pretty good back then, 4
was pretty similar to 5 and now 5.1. I have no need at all for an office
suite, so it's only real use is for demo'ing and for getting friends who do
need office suites a chance to use another OS than Windows. I only bought
Civilization: Call to Power, MythII and The Quake II Boxed set at the Linux
Expo to help the industry believe there is a market in Linux :)

As for Slackware, The development on this suddenly has grown again my
flatmate downloaded version 6.5 which is based on Glibc2.1.2 (2.0.7 was
really unreliable and I'm surprised the other distros took the silly step of
going glibc before it was ready, Slackware did the right thing staying with
the reliable and trusted libc5 for so long), which means wine will work
correctly threaded, X will be reenterant, SO5.1 will install properly, G2
(realplayer) will work ok. Oracle.. The list is endless, but it's been too
long in comming, I almost switched to another dist. Slackware is now up to
version 7.0.0pre3-beta and I'm certainly going to stick with it.
H

Damion

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Damion Yates - Damion.Yates [at] bbc.co.uk

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