From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 15:34:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E450F37BEBD for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA34591; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:32:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200006272232.SAA34591@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: j mckitrick , Matthew Hunt , Christoph Sold , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation and office suites In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:08:48 +0530." <20000628000848.H12860@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:32:26 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> i think there are two possibilities here. first, the bsd port is often a >> minor revision or so behind the most recent release. so staroffice 5.2 >> MIGHT not yet have a port, while 5.1 clearly does. i don't know simply >> because i haven't checked the ports. it would obviously be easy enough to >> do. i just haven't yet because i'm not sure what i want to do. > My ports tree (updated nightly) puts the version at 5.1a. yes, but it uses the linux port; there is no freebsd version of 5.x. Check the text of the ports; it calls for linux support files hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message