Hi,

Star Office is a little sensible, I have no experience using it under 
NetBSD, under Linux you have to make shure that:

1. The installationfile (somwthing like (so5.xinstall") must be extracted 
as root

2. The installation of the extracted files MUST NOT be run as root in 
fact starting to install as root will cause strange errors (probably the 
ones described by you)

 
mike


On 7 Jan 00, at 9:58, Steven Grunza wrote:

> Has anyone gotten StarOffice (from www.stardivision.de) to run under Linux 
> emulation with NetBSD-1.4.1?  I have the following Linux emulations installed:
> 
> suse_base-6.1p1     Linux compatibility package
> suse_compat-6.1p1   Linux compatibility package with old shared libraries
> suse_libc5-6.1p1    Linux compatibility package for libc5 binaries
> suse_x11-6.1p1      Linux compatibility package for X11 binaries
> suse_xforms-6.1p1   Linux compatibility package for xforms binaries
> suse_linux-6.1p1    Linux compatibility package collection
> 
> The setup fails complaining that it can't load a needed library.  The 
> particular library it needs appears to be getting extracted from one of the 
> setup files but for some reason, the setup program can't find it.
> 
> root@pc-grunza-p# file setup
> setup: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically 
> linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> 
> 
> root@pc-grunza-p# ./setup
> /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin: error in loading shared libraries
> libvos517li.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Anyone have any ideas where I can start debugging this?  I'd hate to have 
> to switch to Linux just to read the Word documents my company uses....
> 
> 
>