[KLUG Members] OpenOffice 641D

[Adam Williams]

>>I'd recommend NOT having OO or SOs libraries in your system path.  One - They
>>were not meant to be there, Two - they will slow everything down as it makes a
>>larger symbol table for the dynamic linker to walk through.
>Agreed.  However, here soffice is just a symlink to soffice.bin.  

Did the installer do that?

 
> #!/bin/bash
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/Rinaldi/OpenOffice641d/program/
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> exec /home/Rinaldi/OpenOffice641d/program/soffice.bin &
> Yes.  It works.  I took the "offending" entry out of ld.so.conf, reran
> ldconfig, ran ldconfig -p | grep 641 to make sure they were gone, and
> ran the soffice script.
> Do you see any glaring flaws?  

Nope, that is basically what the soffice wrapper does,  just with more
platform sensitive stuff.