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- StarOffice mini-HOWTO
- Matthew Borowski, mkb@poboxes.com, http://www.jnpcs.com/mkb/linux
- v0.7, July 7, 1997
-
- Information on installing the StarOffice Office Suite by StarDivision, GmbH.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- Table Of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Motif info
- 1.2 History of this document
- 2. Obtaining the StarOffice suite
- 3. Installation of StarOffice
- 3.1 Libc issues and fixes
- 3.1.1 Upgrading your libc
- 3.2 Installing from the tar files
- 3.3 Setup and configuration
- 3.4 COL setup bug
- 3.5 Fixing the LANG variable problem
- 4. Running StarOffice
- 5. More Information
- 6. Contributions
- 7. Disclaimer and Copyright
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- The StarOffice Office Suite is a collection of office tools for Linux,
- written in C using the Motif toolkit. StarOffice includes:
-
- - StarWriter, a word processor
- - StarCalc, a spreadsheet
- - StarImage, an image editor
- - StarDraw, a draw program similar to Corel DRAW
- - StarChart, a chart-making program
- - StarMath, a math editor
-
- The StarOffice Office Suite for Linux is free for non-commercial use.
- Commercial use requires a license. The cost for a commercial license
- seperate from Caldera's OpenLinux system is currently undecided.
-
- 1.1 Motif info
-
- StarOffice is written using the commercial Motif 2.0 GUI toolkit. The
- dynamically linked version will *not* work with Motif 1.2/LessTif.
-
- The static version (with Motif 2.0 linked in) will work regardless
- of whether or not you have Motif. However, performance drops.
-
- I run StarOffice on a Pentium 100 with 48 megs RAM, running Redhat
- 4.1 and Motif 2.0. Dynamically linked StarOffice takes about a minute
- to load. However, it is noticable that, once it loads up, StarOffice
- dynamically linked takes up much less resources than the static
- version.
-
- 1.2. History of this document
-
- version 0.7 970707 - changed section 3.1.1, changed license
- version 0.6 970609 - added fix for the LANG variable problem
- version 0.5 970608 - updated info to StarOffice 3.1 final
- version 0.1 970505 - the initial release.
-
- 2. Obtaining the StarOffice Office Suite
-
- The current release of StarOffice for Linux is 3.1 final. This
- release is available for FTP at ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice
-
- The file README.StarOffice contains information on downloading
- StarOffice 3.1 final. You will need to get three files:
- StarOffice31-english.tar.gz (english) or StarOffice31-german.tar.gz
- (german) templates/demo docs, StarOffice31-dynbin (dynamically linked)
- or StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz (statically linked) binaries, and
- StarOffice31-common.tar.gz
-
- There is also version of StarOffice, available from Caldera. Check
- there website at http://www.caldera.com/ for details on this. Caldera
- also makes a StarOffice CD-ROM available for $7.99 US.
-
- 3. Installation of StarOffice
-
- Installation of StarOffice consists of:
- - Untarring the distribution files as root in /usr/local
- - running the setup program as a user
- - sourcing the .sd.sh or .sd.csh
- - reading section 3.5!!! (do this)
-
- 3.1. Libc Issues and Fixes
-
- StarOffice is linked with libc 5.4.4.
-
- StarOffice 3.1 *will* work on Libc 5.3.x. Unfortunately, the setup
- program requires 5.4.4 or higher. If you have libc 5.3.x, you might
- be able to get around this by acquiring a copy of libc 5.4.4+ and
- adding it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before
- executing the setup script. I haven't tried this, however, so you're
- on your own.
-
- If you attempt to run the setup script on a libc older than 5.4.4,
- you will get the following error message:
-
- line 1: Syntax error at token 'I' expected declarator;
- i.e. File ...
-
- 3.1.1 Upgrading your libc
-
- FTP to sunsite.unc.edu and look in the directory /pub/Linux/GCC for
- the file libc-5.4.33.bin.tar.gz (or whatever the latest libc is).
- Extract the contents of this file in a temporary directory. A new lib/
- directory will be created. Su to root and copy the file libc.so.5.4.33
- from this directory to your /lib directory. Now, make the symlink from
- libc.so.5 to 5.4.33 with the command:
-
- ln -sf /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 /lib/libc.so.5
-
- 3.2. Installing the tar Files
-
- After downloading StarOffice, su or login as root and place the
- archives in /usr/local/. Change directory to /usr/local/ and extract
- the files. An example command to decompress a gzipped tar file
- would be:
-
- tar -xzvf filename.tar
-
- Older systems may require you first use the gzip -d command to unzip
- the file, then use the tar -xvf command to untar it.
-
- The files will extract to their locations within the newly created
- /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1 tree.
-
- 3.3 Setup and Configuration
-
- After you have extracted the StarOffice files as root, you will need
- to login with your userid. Change directory to /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1
- and execute the setup program. This program will install non-shared
- files and symlinks needed for each individual user. The standard
- installation is recommended. There *could* be problems if you do not
- accept the default installation path.
-
- StarOffice makes use of environment variables. The files .sd.sh
- (formatted for the Bourne Shell) and .sd.csh (formatted for the C Shell)
- provide the environment variable settings for StarOffice. These files
- are located in your home directory.
-
- If you use bash, edit your .bashrc and add the line:
-
- source ~/.sd.sh
-
- After doing this, restart bash to bring the environment variables into
- effect.
-
- If you use a different shell, consult that shell's man page for
- information on sourcing a file.
-
- 3.4 COL (Caldera OpenLinux) setup bug
-
- Phil Reardon <pcr@busprod.com> says:
-
- "I found a bug in the setup script for StarOffice that came with my
- Caldera COL standard release. It produces // in a path where there
- should only be one /. To fix it, remove the first slash from this
- line:
-
- exec ${pfad:='.'}/linux-x86/bin/$name;;
-
- There should be no / before linux-x86."
-
- 3.5 Fixing the LANG variable problem
-
- The .sd.sh and .sd.csh files set the LANG variable. This causes
- problems with perl and man. Man will give the error message "Failed
- to open the message catalog man on the path NLSPATH=" Perl will
- give the error message "warning: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")..."
-
- The .sd.sh file contains a line that sets LANG=us and another
- that exports a bunch of variables, including LANG. Remove the LANG=us
- line and remove LANG from the list of variables, and this will be fixed.
-
- In the .sd.csh file (which is formatted for the c shell), you need
- to remove the line that says "setenv LANG us".
-
- Thanks to Adam L. Klein <alklein@adelphia.net> for informing me of
- this fix.
-
- 4. Running StarOffice
-
- The StarOffice binaries are located in the directory:
- /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin/
-
- The applications are: sdraw3, swriter3, scalc3, smath3, schart3, simage3
-
- The program svdaemon must be executed in order to use online help.
- The program svportmap must be executed to enable application communication
- features between StarWriter, StarCalc and StarDraw.
-
- 5. More Information
-
- More information on StarOffice for Linux is available directly from
- StarDivision. StarDivision maintains a website at
- http://www.stardivision.com/
-
- StarDivision runs a news server with support and user groups related
- to StarOffice for linux. These newsgroups are the best place to find
- up-to-date information on StarOffice and to ask for help. Using a
- newsreader, connect to starnews.stardivision.com or follow the support
- link on the StarDivision homepage.
-
- 6. Contributions
-
- If you can contribute any additional information for this mini-HOWTO,
- please contact me via internet e-mail. My address is located at the
- top of this document. You may also wish to take a look at my web
- page, located at http://mkb.home.ml.org/linux/ or
- http://www.jnpcs.com/mkb/linux/
-
- 7. Disclaimer and Copyright
-
- This document is (C) 1997 by Matthew Borowski.
-
- Redistribution of this document in electronic form is permitted
- under the condition that the document remains unchanged. If you
- wish to include this document in a CD-ROM or book, please obtain
- permission from me beforehand (I prefer requests to be sent via
- e-mail).
-
- The author claims no responsibility in anything that may occur directly
- or indirectly as a result of using this document. The author is not an
- employee of StarDivision, GmbH or Caldera, Inc.
-
- Comments and questions may be directed to the author at
- mkb@poboxes.com.
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