[Pc_Support] Fedora Core 6 x86-64: Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 and StarOffice 8

[Bryan J. Smith]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm having compatibility issues on Fedora
Core 6 x86-64 with Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 and StarOffice 8.  This is not
the first time I've had issues with Acrobat Reader and StarOffice in
the past, and ran into several with Fedora Core 2 as well.  Acrobat
Reader installed, but it's startup script is failing (bad expr,
possibly due to an incorrect or missing output due to an incompatible
or missing library call), and StarOffice 8 won't install with an error
code I've seen before back on Fedora Core 2 (error code 0022).  The
latter was definitely a library support issue.

I haven't had time to research, but it could be due to a number of things ...

1.  Missing .i386 and/or other compat libs
I've already noticed the default FC6 x86-64 install didn't install a
number of i386 libraries that were on the DVD.  This was also the case
with FC5 as well.  I did install the compat-296 and 33 libraries, but
I bet I'm still missing a few.  I'll compare to my Fedora Core 5
x86-64 desktop when I get time.

2.  OpenMotif libraries have been removed
The Fedora Project did an analysis of all packages under its
guidelines and decided that OpenMotif didn't match them, so it's gone.
 Lesstif remains in its place.  I don't think this is the issue
because Acrobat Reader is statically linked IIRC, and StarOffice
hasn't used them since version 6 IIRC.  I could be wrong.

Fedora Core 6 is little changed from Fedora Core 5 when it comes to
the ABI (nearly the same GCC, although a GLibC rev, etc...), so I
think it's just some combination of #1.  Again, I'll do a comparison
with my Fedora Core 5 x86-64 system.