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by iswrong
Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:31 am
Forum: SoftMaker Office 2018 for Linux (General)
Topic: Cannot unlock using purchased license key
Replies: 5
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Re: Cannot unlock using purchased license key

In the meanwhile, this workaround does the job:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71460

(Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept execve calls and rewrite /bin/ls to the actual path on the NixOS machine.)
by iswrong
Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:31 pm
Forum: SoftMaker Office 2018 for Linux (General)
Topic: Cannot unlock using purchased license key
Replies: 5
Views: 44878

Re: Cannot unlock using purchased license key


SoftMaker Office places the license file in /etc/SoftMaker. Ensure that your application has access to this folder and can write to it.


No dice. I have created that directory and made my user the owner ( sudo chown daniel:users /etc/SoftMaker ). TextMaker creates /etc/SoftMaker/hunspell . But ...
by iswrong
Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:38 pm
Forum: SoftMaker Office 2018 for Linux (General)
Topic: Cannot unlock using purchased license key
Replies: 5
Views: 44878

Cannot unlock using purchased license key

I am using SoftMaker Office on NixOS (20.03). When I try to unlock using the license key, I get the following error:

The application cannot create a unique identifier.
Please make sure the application has sufficient permissions.

I also get the same error when trying to unlock FreeOffice (with my ...

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