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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:32:26 -0400
From:      "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linux emulation and office suites 
Message-ID:  <200006272232.SAA34591@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:08:48 %2B0530." <20000628000848.H12860@physics.iisc.ernet.in> 

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>> 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




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