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-!StarOffice 3
.1 Mini-HOWTO
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-!!!!StarOffice 3.1 Mini-HOWTO
-
-!!Matthew Borowski (
-mkb@poboxes.com ) (
-http://tarp.worldserve.net/ )v1.1, 28 November 1999
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-''Information on installing the !StarOffice 3.1 Office Suite by !StarDivision.''
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-
-
-
-
-!!1. Introduction
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-
-*1.1 Motif info
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-*1.2 History of this document
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2. Obtaining the !StarOffice Office Suite
-
-
-
-
-!!3. Installation of !StarOffice
-
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-*3.1 Libc Issues and Fixes
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-*3.2 Installing the tar Files
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-*3.3 Setup und Configuration
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-*3.4 COL (Caldera !OpenLinux) setup bug
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-*3.5 Fixing the LANG variable problem
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-
-
-
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-!!4. Running !StarOffice
-
-
-
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-!!5. !StarOffice Tips
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-
-
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-!!6. More Information
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-!!7. Contributions
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-!!8. Disclaimer and Copyright
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-
-!!1. Introduction
-
-
-This document deals with installing !StarOffice 3.1. The current version
-of !StarOffice is 5.1. Version 5.1 is considerably easier to install and less
-buggy than version 3.1. In fact, in my opinion there is no need for a HOWTO
-for version 5.1, since !StarDivision has written a fairly complete
-installation guide. The !StarOffice mini-HOWTO was useful while it lasted,
-but it is now being archived only for the few who still wish to install
-!StarOffice 3.1. For information about !StarOffice 5.1, check !StarDivision's site at
-http://www.stardivision.com.
-
-
-
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-
-
-The !StarOffice Office Suite is a collection of office tools for Linux,
-written in C using the Motif toolkit.
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-!StarOffice includes:
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-* !StarWriter, a word processor
-*
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-* !StarCalc, a spreadsheet
-*
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-* !StarImage, an image editor
-*
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-* !StarDraw, a draw program similar to Corel DRAW
-*
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-* !StarChart, a chart-making program
-*
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-* !StarMath, a math editor
-*
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-
-
-The !StarOffice Office Suite for Linux is free for non-commercial use.
-Commercial use requires a license. The cost for a commercial license
-seperate from Caldera's !OpenLinux system is currently undecided.
-
-
-
-
-!!1.1 Motif info
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-
-
-!StarOffice is written using the commercial Motif 2.0 GUI
-toolkit. The dynamically linked version will *not* work with Motif
-1.2/!LessTif.
-
-
-The static version (with Motif 2.0 linked in) will work regardless
-of whether or not you have Motif. However, performance drops.
-
-
-I run !StarOffice on a Pentium 100 with 48 megs RAM,
-running Redhat 4.1 and Motif 2.. Dynamically linked
-!StarOffice takes about a minute to load. However, it is noticable
-that, once it loads up, !StarOffice dynamically linked takes up
-much less resources than the static version.
-
-
-
-
-!!1.2 History of this document
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-* Version 1.1 991128 - updated URLs and changed references to !StarOffice 4.0 to the new 5.1
-*
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-* Version 1.0 980602 - added information on !StarOffice 4.0 and about how this document is now outdated
-*
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-* Version .8 971109 - added tips, installation w/o libc upgrade, etc.
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-* Version .7 970707 - changed section 3.1.1, changed license
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-* Version .6 970609 - added fix for the LANG variable problem
-*
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-* Version .5 970608 - updated info to !StarOffice 3.1 final
-*
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-* Version .1 970505 - the initial release.
-*
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-!!2. Obtaining the !StarOffice Office Suite
-
-
-The release of !StarOffice 3.1 for Linux is available for FTP at
-
-ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice
-
-
-The file README.!StarOffice contains information on downloading
-!StarOffice 3.1 final. You will need to get three files:
-
-
-
-
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-* StarOffice31-english.tar.gz (english) templates/demo docs or
-*
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-* StarOffice31-german.tar.gz (german) templates/demo docs
-*
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-* StarOffice31-dynbin.tar.tgz (dynamically linked) or
-*
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-* StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz (statically linked) binaries
-*
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-* StarOffice31-common.tar.gz
-*
-
-
-
-There is also version of !StarOffice, available from Caldera. Check their
-website at
-
-http://www.caldera.com
-for details on this. Caldera also
-makes a !StarOffice CD-ROM available for $ 7.99 US.
-
-
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-!!3. Installation of !StarOffice
-
-
-Installation of !StarOffice consists of:
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-*Untarring the distribution files as root in /usr/local
-*
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-*running the setup program as a user
-*
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-*sourcing the .sd.sh or .sd.csh
-*
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-*reading section 3.5!!! (do this)
-*
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-
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-!!3.1 Libc Issues and Fixes
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-
-!StarOffice is linked with libc 5.4.4.
-
-
-!StarOffice 3.1 *will* work on Libc 5.3.x. Unfortunately, the setup
-program requires 5.4.4 or higher. If you have libc 5.3.x, you might
-be able to get around this by acquiring a copy of libc 5.4.4+ and
-adding it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before executing the
-setup script. I haven't tried this, however, so you're on your own.
-
-
-If you attempt to run the setup script on a libc older than 5.4.4,
-you will get the following error message:
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-
-
-
-line 1: Syntax error at token 'I' expected declarator;
-i.e. File ...
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-
-
-
-
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-To upgrade your libc, FTP to
-sunsite.unc.edu and look in the directory
-/pub/Linux/GCC for the
-file libc-5.4.33.bin.tar.gz (or whatever the latest libc is). Extract
-the contents of this file in a temporary directory. A new lib/ directory will
-be created. Su to root and copy the file libc.so.5.4.33 from this
-directory to your /lib directory. Now, make the symlink from
-libc.so.5 to libc.5.4.33 with the command:
-
-
-
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-ln -sf /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 /lib/libc.so.5
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-then run the ldconfig command.
-
-
-
-
-
-Dr. Romano Giannetti (
-romano@iet.unipi.it ) says:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-...I want only to add that I could install (like you suggested) !StarWriter in
-a redhat 4.2 system which has a libc5.3, without doing the upgrade.
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-The exact steps are:
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-1. get a libc.so.5.4.x. If you have a redhat rpm package (as the one you
-find in the contrib directory), you can extract the library by going in a
-scratch directory and doing:
-rpm2cpio libc.so.5.4.x-y.rpm | cpio --extract --make-directories
-The library will appear in ./lib subdirectory
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-
-
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-2. move libc.so.5.4.x in your home directory. Then (assuming a sh-like shell):
-ln -s libc.so.5.4.x libc.so.5
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME:/lib:/usr/lib
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-
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-3. Now you can run setup.
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-!!3.2 Installing the tar Files
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-
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-After downloading !StarOffice, su or login as root and place the archives in
-/usr/local/. Change directory to /usr/local/ and extract
-the files. An example command to decompress a gzipped tar file would be:
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-tar -xzvf filename.tar
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-
-
-Older systems may require you first use the gzip -d command to unzip
-the file, then use the tar -xvf command to untar it.
-
-
-The files will extract to their locations within the newly created
-usr/local/!StarOffice-3.1 tree.
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-
-
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-!!3.3 Setup und Configuration
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-
-
-After you have extracted the !StarOffice files as root, you will need to login
-with your userid. Change directory to /usr/local/!StarOffice-3.1 and
-execute the setup program. This program will install non-shared
-files and symlinks needed for each individual user. The standard installation
-is recommended. There *could* be problems if you do not accept the default
-installation path.
-
-
-!StarOffice makes use of environment variables. The files .sd.sh
-(formatted for the Bourne Shell) and .sd.csh (formatted for the
-C Shell) provide the environment variable settings for !StarOffice. These
-files are located in your home directory.
-
-
-If you use bash, edit your .bashrc and add the line:
-
-source /.sd.sh
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-
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-After doing this, restart bash to bring the environment variables
-into effect.
-
-
-If you use a different shell, consult that shell's man page for information
-on sourcing a file.
-
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-
-
-!!3.4 COL (Caldera !OpenLinux) setup bug
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-
-
-Phil Reardon (
-pcr@busprod.com ) says:
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-" I found a bug in the setup script for !StarOffice that came with my
-Caldera COL standard release. It produces // in a path where there should
-only be one /. To fix it, remove the first slash from this line:
-
-exec ${pfad:='.'}/linux-x86/bin/$name;;
-
-There should be no / before linux-x86."
-
-
-!!3.5 Fixing the LANG variable problem
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-
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-The .sd.sh and .sd.csh files set the LANG variable. This
-causes problems with perl and man. Man will give the error message
-
-
-
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-" Failed to open the message catalog man on the path
-NLSPATH="
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-Perl will give the error message
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-" warning: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")..."
-
-
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-The .sd.sh file contains a line that sets LANG=us and another that
-exports a bunch of variables, including LANG. Remove the LANG=us line and
-remove LANG from the list of variables, and this will be fixed.
-
-
-In the .sd.csh file (which is formatted for the c shell), you need
-to remove the line that says "setenv LANG us".
-
-
-Thanks to Adam L. Klein (
-alklein@adelphia.net) for informing me of this fix.
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-!!4. Running !StarOffice
-
-
-The !StarOffice binaries are located in the directory:
-/usr/local/!StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin/
-
-
-The applications are: sdraw3, swriter3, scalc3,
-smath3, schart3, simage3
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-
-The program svdaemon must be executed in order to use online help.
-The program svportmap must be executed to enable application
-communication features between !StarWriter, !StarCalc and !StarDraw.
-
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-!!5. !StarOffice Tips
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-
-Contributed by Patrick D'Cruze (
-pdcruze@netpal.com.au)
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-
-
-
-
-1. Instead of sourcing the .sd.sh (or .sd.csh) file in my .bash_profile
-script, I instead copied the .sd.sh script, renamed it to swriter and
-copied it to /usr/local/bin. I then modified it by adding a:
-
-#! /bin/bash
-
-
-
-at the start of the script and a:
-
-exec swriter3 $*
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-
-
-at the end of the script. Now all I have to do is run swriter and it
-automatically sets up the appropriate environment variables and then runs
-!StarWriter. Saves having those environment variables pollute other
-applications/environments.
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-
-
-
-2. I noticed that for a lot of people, !StarOffice takes quite a while to
-load (upwards of 60 seconds). The consensus on usenet was that a large
-chunk of this time was due to the symbol relocations that the dynamic linker
-has to do. ie, for each new symbol the dynamic linker has to locate the
-appropriate library. !StarOffice dynamically links against quite a few
-libraries so the dynamic linker spends quite a bit of time searching through
-lots of libraries.
-
-
-
-
-
-There is a solution to this. I run !StarOffice in a chroot'd jail. In the
-jail, I just put the binaries and libraries that !StarOffice uses (all the
-libs out of /usr/X11R6/lib, libc/libm and libg++/libstdc++). !StarWriter
-takes approximately 15 seconds to come up on my P133/32MB. This is due to
-the fact that the only libraries present are the ones needed by !StarOffice
-and hence the dynamic linker spends proportionately less time searching
-through all the libraries on the system (ie, it doesn't search through all
-the useless libs in /usr/lib etc looking to resolve symbols).
-
-
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-!!6. More Information
-
-
-More information on !StarOffice for Linux is available directly from
-!StarDivision. !StarDivision maintains a website at
-http://www.stardivision.com
-
-
-!StarDivision runs a news server with support and user groups related to
-!StarOffice for linux. These newsgroups are the best place to find up-to-date
-information on !StarOffice and to ask for help. Using a newsreader, connect to
-
-news://starnews.stardivision.com or follow the support link on the !StarDivision homepage.
-
-
-
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-
-!!7. Contributions
-
-
-Thank you to Werner Klaus (
-wklaus@metronet.de ) for translating this document
-to sgml.
-
-
-If you can contribute any additional information for this mini-HOWTO, please
-contact me via internet e-mail. My address is located at the top of this
-document. You may also wish to take a look at my web page, located at
-
-http://tarp.worldserve.net/ or
-http://tarp.linuxos.org/
-
-
-
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-!!8. Disclaimer and Copyright
-
-
-This document is (C) 1999 by Matthew Borowski.
-
-
-Redistribution of this document in electronic form is permitted under the
-condition that the document remains unchanged. If you wish to include this
-document in a CD-ROM or book, please obtain permission from me beforehand
-(I prefer requests to be sent via e-mail).
-
-
-
-The author claims no responsibility in anything that may occur directly or
-indirectly as a result of using this document. The author is not an employee
-of !StarDivision, GmbH or Caldera, Inc.
-
-
-Comments and questions may be directed to the author at
-mkb@poboxes.com.
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