Re: Star Office 5.0 on Red Hat 6.0 ??

["Rutvik Doshi" <hdoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is something called a star-office-wrapper in the powertools directory
of Redhat ftp site...I think this wrapper will allow users to run SO5.0 on
RH6.0..although i havent tried it..
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From: LENGARD Pascal OCISI <pascal.lengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 7:10 PM
Subject: RE: Star Office 5.0 on Red Hat 6.0 ??


>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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