Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-05-06 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Great, it works now.  Add me to your list of people for whom it works! The only problem I have know is that on startup, StarOffice pops a dialog saying "Error opening document /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: Nonexistent object. Filter not found." I click OK, and everthing works fine. Later,

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-05-04 Thread eric a. Farris
See my message posted to the list on Monday; i had the same problem and fixed it. Basically you have to do the same thing with xlib6g as you did with glib. (that is, extract it from the .deb manually, put it someplace, add someplace to soffice's LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > Okay, I fi

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-05-04 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Okay, I finally got around to trying your 'receipe'. I picked up on a few of spelling errors, as noted below. Here are the errors I still get: SlimeCity:~$ cd Office50/bin/ SlimeCity:~/Office50/bin$ ./soffice /usr/share/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/l

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - print solution (?)

1999-04-28 Thread Bernard de Rubinat
Hi, Here is a message found on news://stardivision.com.support.installation (I did not test it yet) Best regards, Bernard - --- Subject: Debian Potato/glibc-2.1 Printing Fix/Workaround Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:11:44 -0400 From: Chris Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: StarDivision Gmb

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - OK but not printing :-(

1999-04-26 Thread Bernard de Rubinat
Well, I can't get it to print either. I get the following messages: sh: /usr/local/glibc20/libdl.so.2: no version information available (required by sh) sh: /usr/local/glibc20/libdl.so.2: no version information available (required by sh) sh: /usr/local/glibc20/libc.so.6: no version information ava

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-04-26 Thread Ryan Losh
> > [Lengthy instructions for "tricking Star Office 5.0[1] into executing on a > glibc2.1 system deleted] > I'd like to know if *ANYONE* out there has gotten Star Office 5 to *PRINT* on a potato system running glibc2.1??? If so, would you please post your "recipe" to this list. **EXECUTING** St

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-04-26 Thread Brad
That's pretty close to the system i came up with, i was just waiting to hear back if it worked for anyone else before i claimed i solved the problem ;) Let's see... diffs. psetup works for me without patching, did you try that? Also, if you put the glibc 2.0 libs into ${StarOffice}/lib you don't h

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution (?)

1999-04-26 Thread Bernard de Rubinat
I got into the same trouble as many people who tried to get staroffice 5.0(1?) to work with glibc2.1. I also did try many things I have seen, and I also had many failures to make it work with most recepes, BUT I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK. Here is a recipe I made out of my various attemps. I made a si

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato

1999-04-23 Thread Christian Lavoie
> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Brad wrote: > > >By putting together ideas from a few posts here and in linux-kernel, i've > >managed to get StarOffice 5.01 working on my Potato box. Now, i have two > >problems: > > 1) i know it works on my box. But what about anyone else's? > > 2) If it does work, what do

StarOffice 5 and Potato

1999-04-22 Thread Brad
Hi all, By putting together ideas from a few posts here and in linux-kernel, i've managed to get StarOffice 5.01 working on my Potato box. Now, i have two problems: 1) i know it works on my box. But what about anyone else's? 2) If it does work, what do i do to let people know how to do it? Just