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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:55:01 +0200
From:      nicky <nicky@valuecare.nl>
To:        Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: installing openoffice by package
Message-ID:  <448EC3B5.3040804@valuecare.nl>
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Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> --- Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 6/13/06, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> > > I tried unsuccessfully to build OpenOffice 2.0 on my 5.4 box.
>> > Never
>> > > had enoudh space in /usr...
>> > >
>> > > I decided to install by package:
>> > >
>> > > # pkg_add -r openoffice.org
>> > >
>> > > It tried to install version 1.1.5...
>> > >
>> > > Anyway, trying to start it gives errors:
>> > >
>> > > # openoffice.org-1.1.5
>> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libstdc++.so.5" not found,
>> > > required by "javaldx"
>> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libstdc++.so.5" not found,
>> > > required by "soffice.bin"
>> > >
>> > > Any ideas?
>> > >
>> >
>> > Try KOffice 1.5.1. I've never had a build fail and it now supports
>> > ODF
>> > documents... anyways...
>>
>> Nope, I tried that and I was not satisfied with it due to its .xls
>> handling.  Trouble is, I removed it already and now I'm left without
>> any MS readers.  Forget Abiword...
>>
>
> Try gnumeric?.... why use .xls, .doc etc. when you have ODF? save all
> your documents in ODF.
>
>
http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#obtain

The above link gives you FreeBSD packages for OpenOffice (i've used 
those myself).

Download, use pkg_add.
It will tell the missing dependencies, you can either install them from 
ports or packages as you see fit.

Worked well for me.

Greets,
Nicky



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