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Title: StarOffice Installation hangs on systems with NFS mounted
home directories.

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StarOffice Installation hangs on systems with NFS mounted
home directories.
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Version 6.2, 6.3
Symptom:
When trying to install StarOffice 5.1 on a system where the home
directory is mounted via NFS, the installation procedure hangs at the
dialog box that asks you which Java package should be used.
Reason:
This is connected with a problem whereby the NFS server cannot release
the 'lock' on some files.
Solution:
You need to install StarOffice in such a way that the Office51 directory
is physically on the local machine in a directory which is linked to the
user's home directory. In the following it is assumed that the name of
the user is `rose': replace this by your username.
You have already used YaST to install the so_en package. It has
therefore have placed the necessary files to install StarOffice in
/opt/Office51
- Become root
rose: /home/rose > su
- As root, create the Office51 directory where you want it to be, for
example /usr/local/Office51
root: /home/rose # mkdir /usr/local/Office51/
- Then create a subdirectory for yourself - this will allow other users to
follow the same procedure
root: /home/rose # mkdir /usr/local/Office51/rose
- Change the ownership of this directory to rose:
root: /home/rose # chown rose.users /usr/local/Office51
- Go back to being yourself:
root: /home/rose # exit
- Create a directory in /tmp
rose: /home/rose > mkdir /tmp/rose
- Change to that directory:
rose: /home/rose > cd /tmp/rose
- Create the files sofficerc and .sversionrc, for example:
rose: /tmp/rose > touch sofficerc .sversionrc
- Change back to your home directory:
rose: /home/rose > cd
- Make a symbolic link to the /usr/local/Office51/rose directory
rose: /home/rose > ln -s /usr/local/Office51/rose ./Office51
- Create the following links to the files in /tmp/rose:
rose: /home/rose > ln -s /tmp/rose/.sversionrc .
rose: /home/rose > ln -s /tmp/rose/sofficerc Office51/
- Now change to the installation directory of StarOffice
rose: /home/rose > cd /opt/Office51/bin
- Begin the installation of StarOffice
rose: /opt/Office51/bin > ./setup
Installation should proceed normally and once installed StarOffice should run correctly.

Keywords: STAROFFICE, STAR, NFS

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