This sounds good in theory, but I was not able to install the latest
version of suse_linux, which is called for by star office 5.1.  Others
have had problems.  I suspect something is fouled in my directory tree,
but I have not been able to find the problem.  Running 5.1.1b.

Jim Nelson




On 08.06.01, 10:20:42, Markus Illenseer wrote:

> > There has been a fair bit of discussions previously on installing
> > star office. Could someone who has been successfully installed
> > Star Office on netbsd published a how-to doc. I think a lot of the
> > newbies out there would like replicate your success. And more
> > importantly learn a lot more about linux compat/emul on netbsd.

> 
>  How about starting over with NetBSD package system? There is a complete
> Star office package available, which automatically installs the Linux
> emulation on which it depends.
> 
>  cd /usr/pkgsrc/misc/staroffice
>  make install
>  (Requires to install the pkgsrc-Tarball or cvs)

Yes, but unfortunately this is only version 5.1a of StarOffice, which
has been superseded by version 5.2 for quite some time (about a year,
I think), which can no longer be installed directly on NetBSD.

5.2 has some added functionality and also runs a lot more stable than
5.1. It has to be said, that it also uses a lot more memory, I
consider 64 MB of RAM a minimum for comfortable use.


The only way I found it worked was to install it on a native Linux
system, tar up the installed directory (e. g. /opt/offic52) and unpack
it on NetBSD.

Of course, be sure to have a complete set of linux emulation
libraries installed (I think any of the suse-compat packages works
fine).

> 
> Markus Illenseer
> 
> 

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