>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Cosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> Hmm - that would only work if it were installed. I can't
Rick> get it installed at all ....
- Create a directory named /usr/local/slink, and get and untar the
following file in there:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz
- Get and untar 'so501_01.tar' into /usr/local/slink/tmp
# cd /usr/local/slink/tmp
# tar xvf /path/to/so501_01.tar
- Enter a 'chroot' environment inside this new base, after copying
some needed files from your real environment:
# cd /usr/local/slink
# cp /etc/{hostname,hosts,resolv.conf} etc/
# chroot .
- Get the 'xfree86-common' and 'xlib6g' packages
# apt-get update
# apt-get install xfree86-common xlib6g
- Setup a few other preliminaries:
# mount -t proc proc /proc
# export DISPLAY=localhost:0
- Install StarOffice inside the chroot environment:
# cd /tmp/so501/so501_inst/
# ./setup /net
- Install to the same directory that you would in your real
environment (e.g. "/usr/local/staroffice").
- Exit the chroot environment:
# umount /proc
# exit
- Move neccessary files from this slink directory out to the "real world":
# mkdir /usr/local/glibc20
# mv /usr/local/slink/lib/* /usr/local/glibc20
# mv /usr/local/slink/usr/local/staroffice /usr/local/
- Clean up:
# cd ~
# rm -r /usr/local/slink
- Copy the StarOffice script to a location in your search path:
# cp /usr/local/staroffice/bin/soffice /usr/local/bin/
- Apply the attached diff to /usr/local/staroffice/bin/soffice:
# patch /usr/local/staroffice/bin ~/soffice.diff
(Assuming you saved 'soffice.diff' in your home directory)
If you want to make the changes manually, that's fine too. You
should:
o Remove any dependency on positional parameters, such as $0.
We will call 'soffice' not by itself, but as an argument
to 'ld-linux.so.2'. Therefore, all positional parameters
will be off by one.
o Make /usr/local/glibc20 the first directory in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
o Modify the call to 'soffice.bin' ($sd_binary), so that it
is an argument to /usr/local/glibc20/ld-linux.so.2
Unfortunately, StarOffice will come up complaining about not being
able to open the file /usr/local/staroffice/bin/soffice.bin, which is
now an argument to ld-linux.so.2. The only way to fix this would be
to modify this version of ld-linux.so.2 so that it "shifts" arguments
in the argv[] table it passes to soffice.bin (i.e. the first argument
becomes argv[0], instead of argv[1]). Not a terribly difficult task,
if anyone feels inclined.
Another approach is to start Soffice from within a slink chroot
environment, after mounting /home (from something like
localhost:/home, if exported). (I.e. not remove the 'slink'
environment after installation).
Good luck!
-tor
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