OpenOffice 2.0.3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jul 6 14:35:15 UTC 2006


Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.07.2006, 21:21 +0200 schrieb Bernd Knoettig:
>> Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 18:07 schrieb Smith, Herb:
>>
>>
>>> If one wanted to install the latest from OOo, what's the correct process
>>> to make it work properly?  Is there a way to control where it installs?
>>> Do I want to control that, or not? I haven't had a lot of experience
>>> with rpm.
>> After installing the RPMs from openoffice.org you have to adjust your 
>> security-enhanced-linux settings:
>> Go to "System -> Administration -> Security Level and Firewall"
>> Make sure, that "Compatibility -> Allow the use of shared libraries with Text 
>> Relocation" is checked.
>>
>> Bernd
>>
> That is a perfect answer to the problem: 
> "no suitable windowing system found, exiting." 
> -> now I can run my machine in selinux enforcing mode.
> 
> The only way I found to solve this months ago is to switch to permissive
> mode. How is someone able to find(debug) this? 

All you probably need to do is to change the SELinux context type of all 
of the shared libraries in OOo to textrel_shlib_t.

Paul.




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