Re: StarOffice 5.1 RPM

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

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Graham Spearing wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm not running RedHat, and it works for me. StarOffice doesn't
> > need any particular RedHat inconsistency to work: it installs to
> > opt/soffice (I think)
>
> I am running Mandrake 6.0. It is installig to opt/Office51. I copied the
> file to the hard disk before running it. :-(
>
> I've had problems with Windows 95 and my CDROM but it has always been rock
> solid under Linux.
>
> Hey ho.

I'm confused, why is Mandrake making you install StarOffice using the
distributions default dependancy-based package system?

For large multidistribution applications like MythII/Civilization:Call to
Power/StarOffice you install by executing a supplied executable setup script.
A script designed to deal with varying libc issues and sometimes even
different binary architectures. If I use my own distributions normal
packaging tool (tar; as it's Slackware) against SO5.1 I get this error:

tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Only read 5295 bytes from archive setup.log
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I could imagion some confusion if I didn't know to simply run the script :)

Damion

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

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