On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: > > > > > Hi Herouth, > > > Here's how I did it: > > > > > > 0. Get out of Gnome, KDE, etc. Start X server and run twm window manager > > > > > > > > > > 1. as root, install the IBM bidi_oopern_office using rpm -ivh --nodeps > > > > Why --nodeps > > It assumes that you do not have the g++ 3.01 libs RPM installed. Most > beginners do not know how to get them in RPM form that will satisfy > the deps. See below. > > > > > > > > > 2. add /usr/lib/openoffice/program to the end of /etc/ld.so.conf > > > > > > 3. run ldconfig > > > > > > 4. run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin > > > > > > 5. click the install fonts button > > > > > > 6. use the file chooser to choose a directory that has Hebrew Unicode > > > fonts, such as /usr/local/jdk1.4.1/jre/lib/fonts > > > > Does the sun jre/jdk come with unicode fonts w/hebrew? Care to give more > > details? > > >From jdk1.2 Sun supplies Lucida Sans Regular Unicode font with Hebrew > and Arabic support with the JDK. Note that there are some licensing > restrictions, so I believe that you cannot not use this font for > commercial purposes outside the JDK. > > > > > > > > > 7. Select all of the (Lucida)fonts, Apply > > > > > > 8. exit spadmin, run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice as nonpriveleged > > > user > > > > > > 9. Do the install Workstation option until the installation procedure > > > exits. Ignore .gnome/apps/OpenOffice directory write errors. > > > > > > 10. Set Hebrew keyboard as described in www.pango.org > > > > > > > Actually, this should be done independently. > > You are correct. I did not mean to imply a connection to the preceeding > steps. > > [snip] > > > (I hope I didn't forget the libstdc++.so. If so, you can find it in the > > > OpenOfice.org distribution.) > > > > Actually, no: you need the libstdc++.so against which it was compiled. > > That one wasn't compiled in OpenOffice.org . As mentioned before: --nodeps > > is problematic . > > The problem here is that "beginners" do not know how to installthe > libstdc++ libraries required. The simplest way for them is to install > IBM's rpm with --nodeps and then to ldconfig the libs in from the standard > beta version of OpenOffice. > Regards,
an extra libstdc++ in ld's cache sounds to me like a sure source for strange troubles which those "beginners" will have no idea how to handle. If you want to install extra libraries, do that in a directory outside the cache (that is: not listed in /etc/ld.so.conf) and create a script to run OO: #!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/new/libs exec /path/to/openoffice -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
