StarOffice Patch Application Requires Additional Steps

The following patches are applied to the Solaris OS to resolve StarOffice^TM problems that were reported in CR 6234855 and CR 6262830:

• For SPARC based systems

  • Patch ID 119412-06

  • Patch ID 119906-03

• For x86 based systems:

  • Patch ID 119413-06

  • Patch ID 119907-03

To completely resolve the reported problems, perform the following steps after applying the patches. These steps enable you to use StarOffice 7 Product Update 5 software to open, for example, those OpenDocument files that were created in StarOffice 8 software.

1. Become superuser.

2. Issue the following command:

   # update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

3. Log out of the system and then log in again.