From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 15:39:23 2005 Return-Path: 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 4D24E16A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAACA43D46 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so263645wra for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:39:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=aR4vdJteDsQ4NuHA14uXWWzZJ9iLlrToFjSfI5f4crN03TUSm/cx313SC2vUjyK1vgJlPHCHO/RgRxFf2pTLTQORC4mZYxI2+Z4Vt5Kz7dCQdyPQBnrvCaz5yWjMCLIfpOZVq/nMZlNWqTMU8JEVo3wRSBxw4waCmghE7LKt1gk= Received: by 10.54.54.65 with SMTP id c65mr47987wra; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:18:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:18:58 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:39:23 -0000 On 04 Jan 2005 07:40:23 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > > Yes, it's in the ports tree. I don't think we've ever included a > > linux openoffice port - are you perhaps thinking of staroffice, for > > which a freebsd binary is not produced by sun? > > There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past > the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that > challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to > download and install a binary package from somewhere in the general > direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html Java is a beast in that you need to download the necessary files manually and that it takes awhile to build, however, it's not as daunting as some would have you believe. If you follow the instructions, it'll build just fine. I installed jdk14 and openoffice- 1.1.3 Sunday on a 4.11-STABLE machine in four hours. It works well so far, and I did not encounter any unforseen headaches. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate