On Mon, 4 May 1998, Paul Greene wrote:
> This is probably an easy question for the experts; I'm doing (what I hope
> is) the smart thing by asking before leaping off the cliff.
>
> I would like to install the Star Office office suite on my linux box (Redhat
> 4.0). The installation instructions call for libc to be upgraded to 5.4.44
> in order for installation program to work properly.
>
> I looked through the Redhat FTP site to see if they had an RPM for 5.4.44
> and it appears that they only have up to 5.3.1 (or pretty close). Is there
> another place somewhere to get a Redhat RPM for libc-5.4.44? An RPM would
> seem like the easiest way to go if it existed somewhere.
I don't think you want to upgrade your entire libc, since it could goof up
a few other things. The way you do it is to just get put the shared
object files libc.so.x.x.x and libm.so.x.x., with symbolic links, in the
StarOffice lib directory, then use a (provided) script to point to that
directory when Star Office runs. There are Web pages around describing
this process, and hopefully it works with Red Hat 4.0. Check out Ray
Curtis's site at
http://www.clark.net/pub/ray/
He's got some great instructions there, though they apply best to later
versions of Red Hat.
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