Maybe Im crazy, but does Star Office REQUIRE you have Java?  I installed 
SO 5.2 on GNU/Linux and OpenOffice 6.0 on Windows and neither one 
REQUIRED Java.  They looked for it, but didnt REQUIRE it.

Derek

Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:13:58AM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
>
>>So far, no response from anybody.  I guess I am just sh*t out of luck
>>
>>On Saturday 06 October 2001 12:01 am, you wrote:
>>
>>>I have downloaded the IBM Java SDK and tried running the SO binary.  Same
>>>things as before.  No luck.  Any takers?
>>>
>>>On Friday 05 October 2001 10:25 am, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've been using it for a couple of days now, and it's awesome!
>>>>What version of Java do you have installed?
>>>>
>>>>Sun's version of Java always seems to give me fits.  I am using IBM's
>>>>Java2SDK off their web site.  www.ibm.com/java
>>>>
>>>>nathan
>>>>
>>>>On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 08:15, Rick Rosinski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I have downloaded the setup binary for SO 6.0, and when I execute it,
>>>>>it says glibc 2.2.3 and after a minute, stops executing.  I am running
>>>>>it on a Slackware 8.0 system.  This concerns me, especially if I might
>>>>>not be able to run the official release.  Can anybody help out here?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Rick Rosinski
>>>>>http://rickrosinski.com
>>>>>rick@rickrosinski.com
>>>>>
>
>Not quite -- do an 'ldd' on the install binary. Make sure all of the
>libraries are found. The Java RT isn't needed until it's actually installed
>on the machine, so you're safe there. I just pulled down the install file
>myself and installed it -- worked okay for me, and I'm running a GCC
>3.0/glibc 2.2.3 system.
>
>One last thing you can try is running the setup binary and checking the
>return code (ex: so-install-binary; echo $?). Might want to send an e-mail
>describing what you're experiencing to csr-customer-service@sun.com
>