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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
  1. Become root
    rose: /home/rose > su 
  2. As root, create the Office51 directory where you want it to be, for example /usr/local/Office51
    root: /home/rose # mkdir /usr/local/Office51/
  3. Then create a subdirectory for yourself - this will allow other users to follow the same procedure
    root: /home/rose # mkdir /usr/local/Office51/rose
  4. Change the ownership of this directory to rose:
    root: /home/rose # chown rose.users /usr/local/Office51
  5. Go back to being yourself:
    root: /home/rose # exit
  6. Create a directory in /tmp
    rose: /home/rose > mkdir /tmp/rose
  7. Change to that directory:
    rose: /home/rose > cd /tmp/rose
  8. Create the files sofficerc and .sversionrc, for example:
    rose: /tmp/rose > touch sofficerc .sversionrc
  9. Change back to your home directory:
    rose: /home/rose > cd
  10. Make a symbolic link to the /usr/local/Office51/rose directory
    rose: /home/rose > ln -s /usr/local/Office51/rose ./Office51
  11. 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/
  12. Now change to the installation directory of StarOffice
    rose: /home/rose > cd /opt/Office51/bin
  13. Begin the installation of StarOffice
    rose: /opt/Office51/bin > ./setup
Installation should proceed normally and once installed StarOffice should run correctly.

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Keywords: STAROFFICE, STAR, NFS

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