Apparently Star Division isn't speaking either. They don't seem to have posted any solutions on the newsgroups or on their web site. However, one user wrote posted a possible solution:
"Finally, this is a HOW TO install and use SO 5.0.1 under glibc2.1 based
system (e.g., redhat 6.0.).
1. Unzip glibc2.tar.gz to directory /lib/old
2. Create a sybmolic link /lib/ld-lonux.so.2 to /lib/old/ld-linux.so.2
3. cd to so501_inst directory
4. set PWD= path to so501_inst
5. unzip -L setup.zip
6. Edit setup.bin file (e.g. emacs setup.bin) and replace ld-linux
to
ld-lonux
7. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/old/lib
8. ./setup.bin A normal installtion process should run
9 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
10. edit soffice script as follows
Change last line of the script from:
exec $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7"
"$8"
"$9"
to:
exec /lib/old/ld-2.0.7.so $sd_inst/bin/$sd_binary "$1"
"$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8" "$9"
2. Insert the following _BEFORE_ the above line:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/old:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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Other users posted responses to this solution and said that it isn't too reliable; some people said they couldn't print.
I don't think I like Star Office enough to waste my time trying to make
it work...there's better things to do. Looks like it's Word Perfect
for me until they come up with an official patch.
DMW wrote:
Is it possible that Redhat 6 breaks Star Office?? Star requires the glibc 2.0.7 libraries. But Redhat 6 installs glibc 2.1.1.In the Star setup files, a readme says:
NOTE: In systems in which another incompatible glibc2 version has already been
installed, the ld-linux.so.2 dynamic loader must be changed in order to use
the glibc2.0.7. This means a serious interference in the system which - in
some cases - may cause the non-functionality of other programs using the glib2
version.
I tried make symlinks from the respective 2.0.7 files to the 2.1.1 files. However, it is the ld-linux.so.2 dynamic loader that is the problem, just like the above paragraph states.
Any thoughts? Does anyone have the two working?
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