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I have StarOffice 6 for MDK 9. When I try to install and run it on MDK9.1, it installs painlessly, but not running. My Star Office came with MDK 9 Powerpack.

 

The installed packages are:

staroffice-en-6.0-5mdk

staroffice-common-6.0-5mdk

 

Also I have :

glibc-devel-2.3.1-10mdk

glibc_lsb-2.3.1-1mdk

glibc-i18ndata-2.3.1-10mdk

glibc-2.3.1-10mdk

 

I've tried to run one of the Staroffice apps from the command line, and get this below:

 

$ /usr/bin/sowriter

I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "en_IN"

Aborted

$

 

It never happened with 9.0!

Any ideas to fix this?

 

THX. :?:

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I don't know ... but this is my guess

 

Mandrake 9.0 = gcc 2.96

Mandrake 9.1 = gcc 3.1

 

many many many apps that run fine under 9.0 don't run under 9.1 because of the different gcc versions

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I have the SO rpms which I downloaded from Mandrake Club, and I think they were built for Mandrkae 9. They installed fine (can't remember needing and dependcies) and they run fine. Looking at your error message would suggest to me its a configuration problem, rather than the rpms not being compiled properly for your system. Have you got the en_IN locale installed? One thig you could try is to create a dummy user account, log into it and try running SO from there. This account shouldn't have any prior setting, so hopefully would work. Then you'd know if was the rpms or not.

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one way would be to check /var/lib/locale (I think Mandrake stores them in the same place) I think you could use urpmq too, but it has been a while, so I can't say for sure

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Another method would be to open up either KPackage from the KMenu, or Remove packages from MDK Control Centre. Then do a search for a package of that name. If it listed it'll be installed, if its not then it probably isn't.

 

To install it (if you need to) just open "Install Software" again from MDK Control Centre, and again do a search fo it. Hopefully it should appear in the list of installable packages.

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I don't know ... but this is my guess

 

Mandrake 9.0 = gcc 2.96

Mandrake 9.1 = gcc 3.1

 

many many many apps that run fine under 9.0 don't run under 9.1 because of the different gcc versions

 

Actually, both 9.0 and 9.1 use gcc 3.x (GCC 2.96 was last used in 8.2)

 

What they use are different versions of is glibc:

 

9.0 = glibc 2.2.5

9.1 = glibc 2.3.1

 

But I've installed 9.0 RPMS on my 9.1 and have never had a problem.

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I also did a fresh install, installed the rpms, it installed without any hitch.

 

The following are the glibc installed:

glibc-utils-2.3.1-10mdk

glibc-devel-2.3.1-10mdk

glibc_lsb-2.3.1-1mdk

glibc-i18ndata-2.3.1-10mdk

glibc-2.3.1-10mdk

glibc-static-devel-2.3.1-10mdk

 

Found that en_IN is just a waring message, was not important.

 

Can anybody point to any log file or something? When I click star-word, the splash screen appears for some seconds and then everything goes away.

 

The same rpms worked perfectly in MDK 9.0!

 

THX for any help

-P

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I've tried to run the setup script, and one dialog pops up after sometime saying:

 

"Unfortunately StarOffice could not find the files needed to install the Adabas database.If you want to have Adabas integrated into your StarOffice, run the set-up program for Adabas after completing the StarOffice installation." etc.

 

Can anything go wrong here? I have no idea what to do?

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Just acknowledge it and continue. The database has some licensing issues and has to be installed seperately, if I remember correctly. The dialog is just advising you that the initial installation won't have it.

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The answer is not very clear to me. Do you suggest me to install it afterwards? Then from where? And is it required for the StarOffice to run?

If not what could possibly go wrong?

 

Thanks all of you for your answers.

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The answer is not very clear to me. Do you suggest me to install it afterwards?

Yes, install it afterwards.

Then from where?

There will be a Star Office Setup menu entry

And is it required for the StarOffice to run?

No.

If not what could possibly go wrong?

Nothing will go wrong with the installation - however, you will not have the database capabilities of Star Office until you (at a later time) install Adabas. Note that I haven't used Star Office or Open Office for years, but that's the way it used to be.

 

Thanks all of you for your answers.

 

You're welcome (speaking just for myself, although I'm sure the others agree)

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