Miscellaneous: StarOffice: How to install StarOffice 5.1
(last edit: 2001-03-18)
                   If you're trying to install Sun StarOffice 5.1 and you get the error: 
"libvos517li.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" 
this is the answer:

StarOffice 5.1 is a linux version which expects the above file (and other) to be in the 
'/bin' directory but on your freeBSD machine (which is unix ;-) these file live in 
'/usr/compat/linux/bin' . So you have to add this directory to your path. Another problem 
which will occur is that you temp dir will be full. FreeBSD makes a temp dir in your root, 
which is usually not so big. It is better to use the /usr/tmp dir (if it doesn't exist, 
create it). 

To solve this type in with bash as shell:

bash#export TEMP=/usr/tmp
bash#export PATH=/usr/compat/linux/bin:$PATH 

Make sure the dir '/usr/tmp' exists. Got to the StarOffice install directory and type 
'./setup /net' . Read the 'README' file to see installation options. 

The install dir? eeeh? I mean: download the staroffice source (aka the staroffice tar/tgz file)
, you'll probaly will find it at www.sun.com. Extract it to in a suitable dir (e.g. /tmp). 
You can extract it with 'tar -xvf [filename]'. You'll get a directory structure including 
an install dir: tataaa!!