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Take care,

BIll

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Emre wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> I had some trouble installing StarOffice (actually it's still not installed).  I had to
> basicly download the file from sun.com manually, rename it, copy it to
> /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles and then use 'make NO_CHECKSUM=yes install'  The 'register' script
> somehow doesn't work - probably because sun changed their website a bit.  Anyway now I'm
> getting this:
> 
> ===> Validating dependencies for staroffice-en-5.1a
> ===> Extracting for staroffice-en-5.1a
> ===> staroffice-en-5.1a depends on installed package: unzip-* - unzip-5.40 found
> ===> Patching for staroffice-en-5.1a
> ===> Applying NetBSD patches for staroffice-en-5.1a
> ===> Configuring for staroffice-en-5.1a
> /usr/bin/sed -e 's#@@PREFIX@@#/usr/pkg#g'  </usr/pkgsrc/misc/staroffice/work/so51inst/office51/setup.ins >/usr/pkgsrc/misc/staroffice/work/so51inst/office51/setup.ins.new
> /bin/mv /usr/pkgsrc/misc/staroffice/work/so51inst/office51/setup.ins.new /usr/pkgsrc/misc/staroffice/work/so51inst/office51/setup.ins
> ===> Installing for staroffice-en-5.1a
> so51a_lnx_en needs procfs to be mounted on /proc.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop.
> 
> 
> Does this mean I have to recompile my kernel and add support for /proc?  I always thought
> that was a linux thing.... I'm running NetBSD-current, I did a CVS yesterday and
> recompiled my whole system, including the kernel.  The ports are also -current, from what
> I can tell.
> 
> Any help is appreciated (please reply in private since I'm not subscribed to
> netbsd-ports, thanks :-)
> 
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