Re: Star Office 5.0 on Red Hat 6.0 ??

[Raj Mathur <raju@xxxxxxx>]

I tried and failed in installing SO from the Chip CD's a few times.
However I was lucky (or smart, depending on how you look at it), I
didn't have to reinstall RH each time my installation got chewed
because of SO -- just rebooted with the CD, mounted the disk and
removed SO's libraries and was back to normal.

10 points to Chip for managing to put SO on CD, and -250 points for
putting Linux perception back a few years.

- -- Raju

>>>>> "Aranya" == Aranya  <akshata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Aranya> We've had a nice, long discussion about this some time
    Aranya> back on the list and all of us came to the conclusion that
    Aranya> the SO which came on the CHIP CD will not work with RH
    Aranya> 6.0. The problem is because SO uses some undocumented
    Aranya> features of the old glibc which were removed in the new
    Aranya> version. Although the package claims that it will work by
    Aranya> installing the old glibc as they have said, everybody
    Aranya> (including me) who tried it ended up breaking their
    Aranya> installation.

    Aranya> Akshat.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Hello Linuxers,
    >> 
    >> I recently upgraded to Red Hat 6.0 from 5.2.
    >> 
    >> Star Office which ran without problems on my 5.2 is now not
    >> running .
    >> 
    >> When I try to install SO it said that glibc version was wrong.
    >> 
    >> I untarred the right version of glibc onto a temp directory and
    >> set LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly
    >> 
    >> (as stated in the README that came with SO) but now I get
    >> "version information not available" when
    >> 
    >> I run the "setup" script. Any help welcome. Has anybody
    >> installed Star Office on RH6.0?
    >> 
    >> Thanx in advance Ram Prakash.

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