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Re: Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD



I had the same problem. A quick & dirty method may be to copy this directory to
the harddisk.
Then run ./setup. A good idea will be to run ./setup /net to install the
binaries in one dir and just about 4 MB in your home-directory.

Sven


On 06-Apr-2000 John Stevenson wrote:
> The file is executable by all users and I do not have noexec opions on the
> CD.  I have set the umask to 222.
> 
> I sill get the same problem and after reading through the readme on the CD
> it seems that there is a problem with glibc libraries.  It looks like star
> office needs to have a specific version installed, which I beleve is older
> than the current version in potato.
> 
> I dont fancy messing around with libraries so I guess I will just bin star
> office until someone comes up with an installer.
> 
> Johnny.
> 
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 
>> > I am trying to install StarOffice 5.1 from the official sun
>> > CD onto a debian potato system.  However when I try the set
>> > up program from inside the  /cdrom/linux/office51 directory,
>> > I get the following error:
>> >
>> > # ./setup
>> > bash: ./setup: Permission denied
>> >
>> the file has probably no execute permissions.
>> a "ls -l setup" should show up permissions like "r-xr-xr-x" or only
>> "r-x------".
>> have you mounted the cdrom with the noexec or umask options?
>> umask should be 222 and noexec must not be used, if you want to install
>> directly from cd.
>>
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Date: 06-Apr-2000
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