Re: star office pain (fwd)

[Miles Lane <miles amazon com>]

I know this is off topic, but I thought some folks might
be interested to know that StarOffice 5.1 is working great
for me with IBM's JRE 1.1.8.  I am running the latest 
development kernel and had to install the latest GLIBC
RPM file from ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
in order to get the StarOffice setup program to complete
successfully.

Cheers,

Miles

Yao Wang wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
> 
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