On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Toth Laszlo wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > you probably didn't run the installation.. or run the scripts it > > installs in the home directories (.sd.sh for bash and .sd.csh for > > csh).. > > Thanks your quick answer. I'm lame, but something else is wrong too.
i got staroffice installed ok this morning (i had to use 'dpkg -i --force-depends') and after a bit of stuffing around, now have it running. I even printed a document the first time i clicked on print, without any hassle at all (i already have lprng and magicfilter set up on all my systems). i wasn't able to run the setup program (it core dumps on my system - maybe because i'm running unstable/bo), but i did find a file called sd.sh in /usr/lib/Star-Office-3.1. I copied this to ~/.sd.sh and modified it to suit my system. here's what I've got: #! /bin/bash sd_inst=/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1 sd_fonts=$sd_inst/fonts sd_plat='linux-x86' PATH=$sd_inst/${sd_plat:=.}/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_inst/$sd_plat/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH XPPATH=$sd_inst/xp3 HELPPATH=$sd_inst/modules XENVIRONMENT=$sd_inst/starview.xres SVFONTPATH=$sd_fonts/75dpi:$sd_fonts/75dpi/bdf:$sd_fonts/type1 SVHOME=~/docs LANG=us unset sd_inst sd_fonts sd_plat export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH XPPATH HELPPATH XENVIRONMENT SVFONTPATH SVHOME LANG here's a possible bug in your .sd.sh script: > sd_inst=/usr/local/StarOffice-31 is that really the directory that you have staroffice installed in? For a while I had errors very similar to yours because my sd_inst variable was pointing to /usr/lib/StarOffice-31 instead of /usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1 . As soon as i noticed and fixed the typo, it started working. craig PS: my overall impression of StarOffice so far (after a few hours of playing with it) is that it seems pretty good. I personally don't have much need/use for word processors or spreadsheets or the "typical office apps" but this will be very useful for those who do. it's supposed to be able to import MS word docs - maybe now i'll be able to do something with .DOC files which clueless people keep on emailing to me no matter how many times i tell them "send me plain text only, i don't run MS software and have no intention of ever doing so". -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .