Getting and Setting Up StarOffice 5.1a
Chris Silva bitsurfr@enteract.com
wrote in with the following article on installing and configuring StarOffice under FreeBSD
3.4
And Darren Wiebe points out that there is a port for StarOffice at /usr/ports/editors/staroffice
(Darren is the port maintainer).
Configuration
If you installed your FreeBSD like I did (I’m lazy) and you just took the
install defaults for partition sizes, you are going to most likely run into install issues
like I did… Here is how I installed StarOffice…
I first got out of X, then as root
(or a su’ped user), move the /tmp folder elsewhere so StarOffice has plenty of room to
work.
mv /tmp /usr
Then create a link…
ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp
After that – you need to fetch the bin from www.sun.com Do this via a browser because
you need to register the app etc…
Once you have the 70 meg+ binary, move it to a dir called staroffice5 within
/usr/ports/distfiles
At this point, you might want to get back into X. Now that your in your favorite X
manager, open an xterm (or rxvt, or Eterm, etc.) and su’ yourself.
Then, cd /usr/ports/editors/staroffice5 and do the old make install clean. Once this
1st install is done, exit your su’ed self, then changer dirs:
cd /usr/local/Office51/bin
From there, do a ./setup – This sets up StarOffice for that user by creating the
correct dirs within ~/
The last thing to do is put in your path, ~/Office51/bin – this is where the binary
soffice resides, this is what starts the app.
PATH $HOME/Office51/bin
The final step now that StarOffice is installed, is to set the preferences – that, is
up to you.
That’s it…