From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 12 14:02:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA32416A403 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B636E43D9D for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com?[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20061012140203m1300leodae>; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:04 +0000 Message-ID: <452E4AD7.6080006@computer.org> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:01:59 -0500 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061005) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20061010210916.GA52018@thought.org> <452DA2DC.1040905@computer.org> <20061012045241.GB61348@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20061012045241.GB61348@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OOo-204rc3, package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:21 -0000 On 10/11/06 23:52, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:05:16PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: >> On 10/10/06 16:09, Gary Kline wrote: >>> Is there a means of downloading the 2.0.4rc3 package for >>> openoffice? The latest on the OO website is 2.0.3. portupgrade >>> shrugs. >>> >> Try here: >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ >> >> Then search for openoffice. There appears to be: >> openoffice.org-1.0.3_7.tbz 61241 KB 09/26/06 >> openoffice.org-2.0.20060928.tbz 114724 KB 10/09/06 >> openoffice.org-2.0.4.rc3.tbz 114277 KB 10/08/06 >> > > Oustanding, thanjs much indeed! Now, dumb questions dept: > do I just type > > # fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/..../ > for the last one, -2.0.4.rc3.tbz? Or what? I've never > retrived the OOo package before. ...Not that that's much of > an excuse... . > You could: - copy the above URL into your favorite web browser, then scroll down to the file of choice. - Use your favorite FTP client. Go to ftp.freebsd.org... navigate the dirs. - Use fetch(1) and append the filename to the end of the URL. Any of the above should get you the file. Then you can use pkg_add(1) to install it. I used the *.2.0.20060928.tbz myself. It produces some version of 2.0.4. I assume (right or wrong) it is a little more recent than the release candidate. >> HTH, >> Eric >> >>> I think this is the last thing to replace/upgrade. >>> >>> thanks, people, >>> >>> gary >>> >>> >>> >