On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 stripes@tigerlair.com wrote:

> - Uncompressed and untarred the StarOffice 5.1 binaries. Ran
> setup, got this output: /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin: error in loading
> shared libraries: libvos517li.so: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory.

That looks like one of the staroffice libraries. Are you sure it's not
in "/tmp/sv001.tmp/"? Assuming that it's there, try

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/sv001.tmp /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin

or better, fix it in the "setup" wrapper script. Weren't there other
errors before that one? (Like "/usr/bin/test: not found".)

> - Downloaded the RPM of StarOffice-5.1a_01_517i8-1.i386.rpm from a
> Linux Mandrake 7.0 CD. Ran the following (rpm --initdb ; rpm
> --prefix=/emul/linux --install --ignorearch --ignoreos --nodpes
> StarOffice-5.1a01_517i8-1.i386.rpm). I have this error message:
>
> package is not relocatable
> error: StarOffice -5.1a_01_517i8-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Try it without the --prefix... It will install to /opt/.... You could
then use it from there, or move "/opt" to "/emul/linux/". You might
also try "--root=/emul/linux".

> - Ran the StarOffice 5.2 binaries downloaded from Star Office's
> home page. It made the hard drive cluck around a bit then it
> didn't do anything.

No idea. If 5.2 is publicly available, maybe somebody will fix the
NetBSD package. I'm not interested, myself, in downloading 50mb to
get the same program I already have.


Frederick