Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:17:39 -0600 From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>, Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8? Message-ID: <200312100917.39214.chowse@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <1071064422.393.0.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca> References: <200312091544.54910.chowse@charter.net> <20031210134700.GA36890@madras.dyndns.org> <1071064422.393.0.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca>
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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:53 am, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:47, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > > You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you? > > > That's where I'm going with this, but I have to get jdk working first. > > > attempting to install jdk takes 6+ hrs on my machine. :-) > > > > I just got both working less than a week back. I first fetched the > > packages for jdk14 so that all is ready for compilation. Just make sure > > you have plenty of swap too (I needed atleast 128M). If that's your > > problem, you could add some space in a swap file for now and then delete > > it later (see the handbook). The error message is mostly visible in ttyv0 > > (apart from the errors on the screen) > > > > # cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 > > # make fetch-recursive > > # make install clean > > # (go to sleep...) > > Me too. Worked ok on fresh 4.9 install. > > > openoffice-1.1 takes about 15 hrs on my celeron 1.7Ghz with 256 MB ram. > > About 20 hrs on IBM Thinkpad 700 celeron. > > Steve > > > Hope that was of some use... > > Gautam That's much help, thanks! OK, next question... Assuming I get OO installed, what versions of MS Office files will it open? I have need to open MS Office *XP* files. (cross fingers) -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.
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