>         By the way StarOffice install script will work correctly with
> NetBSD If you extract to a Linux system and Do not run the setup from
> Linux. reboot NetBSD copy the extracted files to /usr/opt .... And
> modify setup for NetBSD by replacing Linux with NetBSD in the case
> statement. After initial install modify your .sd.csh script replacing
> Linux in the case statement with NetBSD. Now StarOffice will see all its
> libraries etc. Hopefully this StarOffice info will help someone as I
> noticed messages in the mailing lists indicating problems with the
> install scripts.
> 
> Thanks Dave

how about writing a pkg to do this automatically?