Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #1167

["Alan N" <alann roava net>]

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From: Lorne Shantz <lornes home com>
To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
Cc: redhat-digest redhat com <redhat-digest redhat com>
Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #1167


>> Subject: Re: Star Office
>> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Ray Curtis <ray ray clark net>
>> To: redhat-list redhat com
>>
>> >>>>> "gk" == Gregory Kaczmarczyk <greg13 home com> writes:
>>
>> gk> I tried installing Star Office for a RH5.1 system and got the error:
>> gk> "line 1: syntax error at token 'l' expected declarator;"
>>
>> gk> then another alert box came up with:
>> gk> "Script Error"
>>
>> gk> Has anyone else had this problem installing Star Office? Or if not,
does
>> gk> anyone know how to resolve it?
>>
>> This has been been answered so many times and is in the FAQ's, check
>> my webpage and do the install #2 method and follow step by step.
>> Basicly it is not finding the correct libc.
>>
>> --
>> Ray Curtis         Unix Programmer/Consultant   Curtis Consulting
>> mailto:ray ray clark net
http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
>>
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>
>I too tried this awhile back and met with failure. I'm using Red Hat 5.1
>and I know I have a libc problem as well. Went to your web site and
>started with your directions, but the link part doesn't seem to work for
>me. It tells me the file aleady exists, so I'm doing something wrong
>obviously. I also seem to have misplaced my tar file of Star Office.
>Does anyone recall the file name so I can go try to locate it?
>
>
I tried today also!  Both with the staroffice wrapper and the method for
just
dloading the libc.so.5.4.44, etc.   Both failed.

I guess I'm just going to have to give up.
It shouldn't have to BE THIS HARD to install an application.

Why can't someone just make an rpm?


Alan