Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 5461
Install needs to check for patch 106950 for Solaris 7
Last modified: 2004-08-23 15:58:12 UTC
I could not get openoffice to install or run on my Solaris 7 systems without patch 106950-03 or later installed. -01 does not work. Don't know if there is a -02 or whether it works. Without this patch, the installation program would just abort. If I installed on another system and nfs-mounted the directory, the user install would crash. Once I had run the user install on another system, now just trying to run soffice causes it to abort before the splash screen is displayed. The installation program should check for this (and the README should make mention of it too) in addition to the C++ runtime library patches that are checked for. A suitable version of this patch is included with recent recommended patch clusters, but it's not really *necessary* to install the whole cluster, which requires a reboot, when all you really need is one patch, which does NOT require a reboot. In an "everyone administers his own workstation" world the patch cluster approach is reasonable, but in large shared environments it's not.
On our list on http://staroffice-doc.germany.sun.com:8080/Teams/QA/Library/operating_systems/solaris/solarispatches.html we have this patch as 'required'. So I think we should add this to the readme
FL->US: IS this (so called Linker-patch) patch really necessary or is it part of a patch we already recommend? We did not mention this patch in current readme.
us->of: we should consider to add the patch ID to the README if it is mandatory. But even more important: when we found out that this patch is mandatory, we should also check automatically for its presence in the Setup (as suggested by the submitter). We already do so for all the other mandatory patch ids. us->of: Pls. test if we can not run on Sols7 without this patch. If so, hand this task over to DV and FL. Thank you.
Reassigned to OF.
Hi Frank, for Solaris Sparc and Intel we have more patches on the CD as we mention in the readme: Solaris Intel readme: * for Solaris 7: 106328-08 missed patch: 106951-xx * for Solaris 8: 108436-01, 108774-12 missed patch: 109148-xx Solaris Sparc readme: * for Solaris 7: 106327-08, 106300-09 (only 64 bit) missed patch: 106950-xx * for Solaris 8: 108434-01, 108773-12, 108435-01 (only 64 bit) missed patch: 109147-xx Please have a look wether we will add this to SO and/or OOo readme. We also should think about the system requirements on the OOo webpages: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs.html
Change target to 1.1 Beta 2
I have added them to the XML readme file, but the transformed txt output of this file will not be displayed in setup today. Setup still uses old static txt readme file.
Verified
close issue.