RE: Star Office 5.0 on Red Hat 6.0 ??

[LENGARD Pascal OCISI <pascal.lengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you have to use SO 5.1 with redhat 6.0
pascal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raj Mathur [mailto:raju@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 1:32 PM
> To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Star Office 5.0 on Red Hat 6.0 ??
>
>
> 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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