StarOffice * fails to Install (Java error)

Hi,

When I run ./setup the install fails with the following error:

Exception in thred "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: while resolving class: install at java.lang.VMClassloader.resolverClass(java.lang.Class) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0

Trying to install on Linux 4.0 WS.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[459 byte] By [pulsar] at [2007-11-25 22:36:46]
# 1
Problem solved: Staroffice requires JRE 1.5. I set the Path to this JRE version and the install works fine.
pulsar at 2007-7-5 14:03:39 > top of Java-index,StarOffice,StarSuite...
# 2

Hi I'm having almost exactly the same problem, but my error. mentions the 6.0.0 file rather than the 5.0.0 one.

JRE 1.5 is installed.

I have no idea how to go about changing the path to this or any other JRE version. Could you let us mere mortals know how this is done?

(Am using the Debian-based Kubuntu distro)

zachariah at 2007-7-5 14:03:39 > top of Java-index,StarOffice,StarSuite...
# 3

OK I am a big idiot. JRE 1.5 was not installed, at least not correctly (I downloaded it from the Sun page and installed it exactly as they said....sigh)

It now is installed correctly, as 'java -version' shows (getting this done was a journey in itself, resolved thanks to the good people at ubuntuforums). However, the command 'alien -i -k RPMS/*.i586.rpm' (entered while logged in as root) has so far resulted in an inactive Konsole screen for about 10 minutes now. I will leave it for a while to see if it is just my PC being slow, or if there is something wrong again...

Do Sun just not care about how infuriatingly difficult it is to install their software?

zachariah at 2007-7-5 14:03:39 > top of Java-index,StarOffice,StarSuite...