Subject: Re[2]: Star Office and Power Mac chip incompatibility?
From: Hugh Caley (hcaley@loomer.com)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 11:22:06 MST
Hi, Cal. I'm sure someone else has told you this, but Sun does not
provide a powerpc binary of StarOffice. The one you are trying to
install is x86 only.
For PowerPC, try OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). A powerpc version is
available there.
Hugh
> Subject: Re[2]: Star Office and Power Mac chip incompatibility?
> From: Cal Grandy <cal@stopshrinks.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:17:09 -0600
>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>
>
> At 07:37 AM 3/18/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> Howdy Cal,
>>
>> Can you send the exact error message you are getting along with the
>> filename and ftpsite you got it from? Might help others in
>> troubleshooting this problem.
>
>
> I got it from the sun.com site. The filename is
> so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin. I've posted on the install support board
> there and will post the solution here, if I receive one.
>
>
> The message was and continues to be: "cannot execute binary file,"
> this after trying several chmod's, and the ./[file] to execute.
>
-- "Brain-eating mutants are bad for business" - Battle Angel Batmensch <hcaley@loomer.com>
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