I have just finished the StarOffice 9 installation on OpenSolaris 2008-11
I am currently running OpenSolaris 2008-11, build 106.
Here are the steps
1- Download StarOffice from Sun Software Library (Sun employee only)
2- Prepare to install it as root
Allow DISPLAY for root and launch StarOffice installation script
In one terminal :
(first line below, you can't guess it: of course, you have to go and ask for your best OpenSolaris friend)
#svccfg -s svc:/application/x11/x11-server setprop options/tcp_listen = true
#xhost +
In an other terminal
#su root
#DISPLAY=129.x.x.x:0.0 (your IP @ you can get with #ifconfig)
#export DISPLAY
Launch StarOffice script : #/opt/so9.0.1.sh
Ensure that OpenOffice is installed. I don't know why, but even if my StarOffice9 installation script succeeded, afterwards libuno_sal.so.3 was missing. This library was added after OpenOffice installation.
3 - Install the fonts
3-A Download the fonts from Sun Software Library
copy fonts : #cp sun_msfonts.zip /usr/X11/lib/X11/myfonts
3-B unzip:
#cd /usr/X11/lib/X11/myfonts
#unzip sun_msfonts.zip
Run spadmin (as regular user): #/opt/staroffice9/program/spadmin and install the new fonts from the menu
Also, if you want to remove from the Gnome menu the Staroffice 8:(thanks to Ian)
System -> Preferences -> Main Menu
Here you are!
What I like in StarOffice Text is the zoom slider at bottom right:
"xhost +" is one of the stupidest things an X11 user can do. Just ssh to login as root on your machine and use ssh's built-in X forwarding.
Posted by User on March 19, 2009 at 07:20 PM MET #
@User:
isn't ssh to root usually disabled? I agree that xhost + is the wrong thing to do, but I would more likely use xauth there. Besides, unless there is a special optimization when using ssh locally, the ssh X forwarding is slowww.
Posted by Marc on March 19, 2009 at 08:25 PM MET #
I tried this following sequence:
# xauth generate :0 .
# su root
# xclock -> Display is OK!
And that works indeed! Thanks Marc for your advice
Posted by Dominique on March 20, 2009 at 06:53 PM MET #
Hi Dominique,
I wasn't able to locate/download the sun_msfonts.zip in the Sun Software Library...
could you please point me in the right direction?
thanks ;-)
Posted by Marco on July 24, 2009 at 07:38 PM MEST #