star office pain (fwd)

[Yao Wang <ywangz eecs umich edu>]

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:38:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Yao Wang <ywangz@eecs.umich.edu>
To: bill.helke@cp.Novartis.com
Cc: gnome_list@gnome.org
Subject: star office pain



On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 bill.helke@cp.Novartis.com wrote:

> Here's how I got my StarOffice install to work with JDK/JRE:
> 
> 1.) Install JRE or JDK (I used JDK 1.2.2 from Blackdown and installed it
> under /usr/local manually; a JRE gets installed automatically in a
> subdirectory with the JDK distribution).
> 2.) Navigate to the JRE directory and drill down until you find the link to
> the java exectuable.
> 3.) In gdm's config file, add a PATH entry to the directory where the link
> to the runtime java executable is located.  I included the entry for both
> the root PATH and the user PATH in the gdm config file (there are options
> for both), but you can probably leave it off of the root PATH entry since
> you install the base StarOffice as root (which doesn't do a JRE check) but
> do the actual user install as user (which does do a JRE check).
> 4.) Reboot to restart gdm and implement the PATH changes.
> 5.) Install StarOffice as outlined in the StarOffice instructions.
> 
> William F. Helke
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yao Wang [mailto:ywangz@eecs.umich.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 1:40 PM
> To: Helke Bill CP USGR EXC
> Subject: RE: xdm compliant with gnome? and star office
> 
> 
> Thanks for all the replies:
> 
> I have figured out how to run gnome-sesssion:
> 1. the /usr/X11R6/bin has to be in the path
> 2. LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin in .cshrc, has to be
> unset for other programs one wishes to launch at start-up (e.g. acroread)
> 
> However, I really get bored with the star office install. I guess it is
> not integrated in the RH6. The manual from Sun says:
> 1. put  the JRE(Java Runtime Enviorment) files there
> 2. it is not sufficient to extract them only (but it does not leave me a
> clue for what to do)
> so, after putting the network server version, user install simply hangs
> at cannot find java environment. Could anyone give me a clue?

I am using JRE1.1.7 as suggested in StarOffice manual.
After include $JRE/bin in the $PATH, the staroffice local install thinks
it sees the JAVA home, however, as I pushed the OK button, it hangs up the
whole gnome session. My plan was to put a net server on one machine that
can be mounted from others, and let users install a tiny local part.  Does
anyone have similar problems? Do I have to install the star office in
everyone's home?

Thanks 

yao