[LUGOS] OpenOffice

Wed Oct 23 09:21:15 CEST 2002

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After the untarring, you should have a new directory called install. cd into that directory, su to root, and then run the following: 

./setup /net 

Now, you may get an error message that looks like this (I did, on my Red Hat 7.2 system): 

/tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

I went to http://rpmfind.net and searched for the correct file. I downloaded and installed compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.16.i386.rpm and libstdc++-2.96-98.i386.rpm, but both were already installed on my system. Hmmmmmm. 

At this point, I wanted to know more about the missing file, libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3. I ran the following: 

locate libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 

And I got nothing. Nada. OK. Well, if the entire file doesn't give me anything useful, I'll truncate it to see if there are similar files on my system. So I tried the following: 

locate libstdc++ 

This time, I got a listing of about 15 items. Most of them were in the /usr/lib directory. Ah, now we're getting someplace. I did a cd to /usr/lib and typed ls. Nope! Shouldn't have done that -- I got a listing back of hundreds and hundreds of files. I should have known better than that. So in an effort to see only the files I need, I ran this command: 

ls -l libstdc++* 

And I got back this list: 

  -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      1144432 Jul 11  2001 libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       478454 Sep  4  2001 libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a
  -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       419374 Sep  4  2001 libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           30 Mar  9 16:36 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           30 Mar  9 16:53 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.a.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           31 Mar  9 16:26 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar  9 16:36 libstdc++.so.2.7.2 -> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1025339 Jul 11  2001 libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Mar  9 16:36 libstdc++.so.2.8 -> libstdc++.so.2.8.0
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       375773 Jul 11  2001 libstdc++.so.2.8.0
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Mar  9 16:36 libstdc++.so.2.9 -> libstdc++.so.2.9.dummy
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5476 Jul 11  2001 libstdc++.so.2.9.dummy

OK, now we're getting someplace. There's a file that's tantalizingly close to the one that OpenOffice needs but is missing: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3. Notice that it's actually a symbolic link pointing to another file -- libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so -- that must be the file that really does the heavy lifting. So, based on the evidence I see here, I should be able to fix my OpenOffice problem by doing the following as root: 

ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 

In other words, I created a symbolic link named libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3, which is what the error indicated OpenOffice was looking for but could not find, and pointed it to the correct file: libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so. 

I now went back to where I had left the untarred OpenOffice installation files, and once again ran the installation command: 

./setup /net 

Success! The install proceeded without the error message! (By the way, I left the symbolic link in place after the install. I could have taken it out, but I thought I'd go ahead and leave it in case I ever wanted to install OpenOffice 642 again. So far, things on my system have worked just fine.) 

When the install asked me where I'd like to place OpenOffice, I said /opt/OpenOffice.org642. The install went along nicely, and then it was completed. 

But not quite. I had installed OpenOffice as root & made it available to all the users on my system, but I hadn't installed it for those individual users. Big difference. Each user needs to run a brief install of OpenOffice that places a few MBs of files in their home directory. To do this, the user (not root) runs this command: 

/opt/OpenOffice.org642/setup 

During the install, choose the Workstation install, which places a few MBs into your home directory. Also, place the files in /home/[username]/.OpenOffice.org642. Notice the "." in front of the directory. That way, it's in your home directory, but it's not visible. I like to have an uncluttered home directory, so I try to install software with a dot in front of its directory name, which makes it invisible unless you run ls -a. 

The last thing to do is place a shortcut to OpenOffice on your Panel. Right click on a blank area of your Panel and choose Panel > Add > Non-KDE Application. For the path to your application, use /home/[username]/.OpenOffice.org642/soffice. Choose an icon you like as well. Click OK and you're done. Click on your new OpenOffice icon, start OpenOffice up, and begin using a great -- and free! -- office suite!

-----Original Message-----
From: Janko Mivsek [mailto:janko.mivsek at eranova.si]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:06 AM
To: lugos-list at lugos.si
Subject: Re: [LUGOS] OpenOffice

neonatus at neonatus.net wrote:

>* On 22-10-02 at 22:54 Fredi Najžar (fredi.najzar at siol.net) wrote:
>+----Here quoted text begins----+
>  
>
>>neonatus at neonatus.net wrote:
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>>>Ni mi cisto jasno kaj si pocel, vendar na infosu je to delalo na 12
>>>masinah in na vseh sedaj lepo tece taisti OpenOffice.org kot ga imas ti
>>>na cd-ju.
>>>
>>>Pozenes pac ./setup in voila! pojavi se program za instalacijo in nato
>>>samo se poklikas opcije in zadeva je instalirana.
>>>      
>>>
>>Izgleda, da dela samo na izbranih mašinah, z izbrano konfiguracijo, z 
>>kaj pa jaz vem kakšnimi posodobitvami. DL verzija tudi nič ne mrkne.
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> 
>+----and here the quote ends----+
>Res je da smo mi tam instalirali le na SuSE 8.1. Za druge distribucije
>nebi mogel trditi, da je kaj drugace, vendar sam installer mislim da bi
>moral biti staticno linkan, tako da to bi ti moralo delati ali pa ti
>vsaj izpisati kako bolj deskriptivno porocilo o napaki.
>
>Regards/Lep pozdrav
>
>Boštjan Müller
>  
>

Včeraj sem tudi jaz imel težave, ko sem nameščal agendin OpenOffice na 
SuSE 8.0. Setup se se mi je namreč pritoževal nad pomanjkanjem knjižnic 
libstdc++.so.5 in libgcc_s.so.1. Ti knjižnici obstajata na namestitvenem 
imeniku, vendar sem ju moral skopirati na imenik /usr/lib ter pognati 
chmod 777 nad obema, potem je pa šlo.

Lp Janko

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Janko Mivsek
Systems Architect
EraNova d.o.o.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://www.eranova.si