Re: StarOffice Installation problems....

["Jas" <dhaliwal pathcom com>]

Thanks, that did the trick..I must have missed setting some files to world read 
in my lib directory :-)

> Date:          Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:26:07 -0800 (PST)
> From:          Michael Paul Friedlander <mpf leland stanford edu>
> To:            redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:       Re: StarOffice Installation problems....
> Reply-to:      redhat-install-list redhat com

> I just installed StarOffice 4.0 and ran into the same problem.  If you
> look carefully again at the same instructions you followed, you will
> notice that it mentions to make sure that /usr/local/Office40/lib is world
> readable and executable.  As root I did an appropriate chmod on all files in
> that directory.  Then as user I executed /usr/local/Office40/bin/setup and all
> went fine. 
> 
> Michael.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jas wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > I am running RedHat5.0.
> > 
> > I downloaded StarOffice4.0 and followed the excellent instructions for 
> > installation as indicated on this nice hlp 
> > page...
> > 
> > http://www.waldherr.org/soffice/
> > 
> > I followed his instructions on updating libc...and (as root) the installation 
> > proceeded to completion ...
> > 
> > (My updating of libc removed the error
> > line1:syntax error@ token l expected declarator; i.e. File....
> > that I was getting during earlier installation attempts as root)
> > 
> > However, I am unable as a user to run the setup (the final step near the bottom 
> > of the page- "3. Let the user (!) run..etc" ). I get the error indicated 
> > above....I checked the setup script in the bin directory of the installed 
> > StarOffice and it has the changes to the path for the updated libc....I also 
> > added the bin path of StarOffice to the users $PATH.  So why am I still getting 
> > the script error and hence unable to setup StarOffice for the user?
> > 
> > Any assistance in this matter would be appreciated....
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Jas
> > 
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Regards
Jas

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