Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:25:11 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Alex Buell wrote:

> I just junked StarOffice because it will NOT work with glibc-2.1 but
> insists that you install glibc-2.0.7 so it will run. Stupid bastards - and
> I quite liked StarOffice 4.0. Fuck them.
>

Alex,
It comes with its own C-library. It doesn't need to use yours. You
put their c-library where they say it should be, modify environment
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include theirs, add their library directory
to ld.do.config, execute `ldconfig` and it will work.

FYI, their library should be in /opt/Office40/lib. I have 5.0, so
it's in /opt/Office50/lib. Here is my LD_LIBRARY_PATH (this goes in
/etc/profile).

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib/:/usr/X11R6/lib:/opt/Office50/lib:/usr/java/lib/i686
LESS=-MM

Admittably this was hard to figure out because the documentation is
poor. However, the program itself works very well and allows me to
read/write m$garbage.doc files without having to poison my machine with
Gates-turds.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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