emerge openoffice error! chown cant get "soffice" file

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jimmy_123 · Post by **jimmy_123** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:34 am

when i emerge openoffice-2.0.4 proceeding "install" action, i get a error report:

chown: changing ownership of `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.0.4/image/usr/bin/soffice': No such file or directory

And emerge terminate.
I have emerged twice, and terminate at the same point.

I notice that /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.0.4/image/usr/bin/soffice is a link. It links to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice. But at the meantime, the file /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice dosnot exit.
Maybe it is a bug ?

Randy R · Post by **Randy R** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:35 pm

I can't help on the error, but if you just want openoffice, emerge openoffice-bin.

I have been largely unsuccessful in getting openoffice to emerge, and have given up myself. Use flags, and other options in make.conf are generally the problem according to many of the posts here. I find it is much easier to install the binary package. I just works.