From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 20:53:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4011065678 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (duane.dbq.yournetplus.com [65.124.230.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB358FC21 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B6BC227E41F; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44CA27E41A; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:47 +0000 (UTC) From: D Hill X-X-Sender: d.hill@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com To: Andreas Davour In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (BSF 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone have any luck installing openoffice? 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: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:53:50 -0000 On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 21:45 +0100, ante@Update.UU.SE confabulated: > > No I have tried to manually download the package for openoffice, which barfed > since dependencies where not present. > > pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package where it should have been > on the site to download. > > I have tried to build from source as well and that fails since the source can > not be found. (ports tree updated) > > How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right now. > > It was't this hard last time I tried. Installed fine here under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from the ports tree: /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2 without any errors. Of course I had to manually download the required Java stuff. ------ _|_ |_| |