OpenOffice 1.0.0r2 does not install

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I can't seem to install Open Office.
Typing "emerge openoffice" gives me:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge app-office/openoffice-1.0.0-r2 to /
>>> md5 ;-)

OOo_1.0.0_source.tar.bz2
>>> md5 ;-)

gpc231.tar.Z
>>> md5 ;-)

openoffice-1.0.0b-registry.tbz2
*

And the shell remains like this forever. I can CTRL-C which gives the usual:

!!! Portage interrupted by SIGINT; exiting.
PORTAGE: Checking for Sandbox (setup)...
PORTAGE: No Sandbox running, deleting /etc/ld.so.preload!
Killed

Perhaps of note is the fact that the asterisk after the md5 checks is red.

Searching the forum, bug-reports etc have not helped.

Regards.

nbensa · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 5:04 am Post subject:

Hmmm... I didn't see those smileys while emerging OpenOffice

Seriously. How much time is "forever"? OO is BIIIIIIIG and must be unpacked before compiling. You know that, don't you?

Regards,
Norberto

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 5:40 am Post subject:

How does 2.5 hours sound?

A Pentium 4 2.0GHz, 768MB RAM machine should'nt tremble at a "mere" 100+ MB file.

Ramirez · Guest

just wanted to add that you're not the only one having this problem...

uberfoo · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Dallas, TX

I too am having this problem... it appears to be something w/ ebuild itself...

Jonkku · Guest

I am relatively new to Linux but had a similar problem (cannot remember exact error message). The problem turned out to be that the installation takes up quite a lot of temporary space in the abovementioned directory.

Hope this helps,

Jonkku

brain · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:38 am Post subject:

Wanted to add that I'm getting the exact same error as stated above.

On another system today, I experienced the same behavior when attempting to emerge the Nvidia-KERNEL ebuild.

It may have something to do with an updated ebuild that was unmasked today....since I've emerge -u system'd a few Gentoo boxes today and they're all experiencing these errors.
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rac · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 2:18 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing to Portage & Programming, presumed ebuild problem.
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woodm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 75

I'm having the same trouble, and was wondering if anyone had found the solution.

I know that on one of my attempts to download the file, it was corrupt, but now the md5 is checking out.

Could it be that I need to have portage uncompress to a different directory?

>> Edited for spelling. Probably missed more.
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brain · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

I still couldn't find a bug in bugzilla for this problem so I submitted one. View it here:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7230
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primitive_code · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 11

i too have the same error.
i wanted to see how openoffice was : D
ill take a look at the md5sums..

primitive_code · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 11

nope, it dindt have anything to do with the md5sums
its the ebuild.
right now i bypassed the error by commenting the gcc-version and all other sections over the src_unpack (all about gcc 3 not the depend and those things).
and it extracts the thing 00o archive.. a big one.
its some thing with the gcc-version in the ebuild and the scripts that checks for different things.. one could do it manuallyt. comment those all out and just inser the whatseva needed for ur system..
but im too sleepe for that now.
ill check for more on this tomorrow

or while im asleep could someone somewhere where the "time is different" (the timezone :p) check the script above the src-unpack()
in tha ebuild.

ow, now i got the error (t stoped right after all the patches aplied, telling "Cannot find gcc verion 3.0 or later" well it cant fint the /usr/bin/gcc3 somethin, it checks for gcc3 to set it up so it compiles whit gcc3. which it cant find, i could set it to gcc 2.95.. but i dont want to.. right now..... )
ow well. ill look at it tomorow

brain · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:16 pm Post subject:

Ok... I think I've got it guys. I tried to emerge it on another workstation, and this was the result:

Mustard007 · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 3:23 am Post subject:

Hi !

So, i have the same trouble with ALSA and nvidia-kernel. It seem the new portage-2.0.32 is the problem. I had done a emerge -u world today !

brain · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 2:11 pm Post subject:

I've had the same problem with the nvidia-kernel ebuild as well. I think there's some GCC3 stuff that's being prepped in certain ebuilds and it may be messing with us.
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i_hate_your_os · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 11:07 pm Post subject: Some hints about this...

I was experiencing this problem trying to merge in xfree-4.2.99. I never succeeded at merging this (gcc-3.2 had a scary problem with it using -march=athlon) but I did make some headway into the "*" forever thing.

I did an strace and saw it waiting on some process. Killing the process caused it to spit out the error message. So I looked in the ebuild and noticed something like:

pkg_setup() {

eerror
eerror "blah blah blah..."
eerror
die

}

apparently there is a problem with "die" in recent portage's. Removing the pkg_setup() allowed the ebuild to continue. I imagene that simply removing "die" would have been enough but I don't know enough about "eerror" to say.

So, apparently, the problem indicates that your ebuild is trying to spew some error and die. Using the strace emerge / kill -KILL trick described above will at least allow you to see the error message and begin addressing the problem by fixing the problem or hacking on your ebuild.
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scottro · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 11:16 pm Post subject:

When I installed OO on this machine (running Gentoo 1.2 with gcc 2.95) I also emerged the gcc 3.x that they recommended. That worked.

Note that you don't have to upgrade your 2.95 gcc, the two can co-exist

On other machines, running 1.4 beta, I have had difficulty--the ebuild keeps dying (not a space issue--I've heard it said, btw that you need 2 gigs free to build it.)

Although this has been discussed on other threads (I'm too tired to look right now) one thing I've found on 1.4... If I emerge openoffice-bin as root (that is, NOT as sudo, or even su) I have no problems. If I emerge it with sudo, then various bad things happen when I first try to to run it--that other thread I mentioned put me on the right track, it has to do with some paths to some libraries.)

Hope this is of use to someone

Scott

art · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Ma

I have OO on machine at work GCC 3.1 works fine 3.2 seems to have problems.
tried OO at home got this error

checking the GNU gcc compiler version...
configure: error: found version gcc (GCC) 3.2 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE., but use of gcc 3.x requested

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 59, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

csnyder · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 6:02 am Post subject:

kyron · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 5:25 pm Post subject:

brain · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 10:49 pm Post subject:

For anyone still reading this topic, the bug has been fixed according to bugzilla. whether or not that means it needs GCC3 or not, I'm not sure yet!
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kyron · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:06 am Post subject:

I take it the ebuild does not reflect this fix yet....?
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brain · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 11:14 am Post subject:

I forgot to mention you need to emerge the latest version of Portage first. Sorry!
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kyron · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject:

Uhm...I did so yesterday night and I still had the same problem....

did
emerge rsync
then
emerge portage

hmmmm......did I perform emerge portage before emerge openoffice....(damned...can't remember....DOH!)
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