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From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:13:39 GMT
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Subject: Re: Help with Staroffice 5.1 inst on FBSD3.2
To: "Bert Hiddink" <hiddink@galileo.or.cr>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 9/21/00, 3:25:22 AM, "Bert Hiddink" <hiddink@galileo.or.cr> wrote=20
regarding Re: Help with Staroffice 5.1 inst on FBSD3.2:


> Hello, Salvo,

> Thanks for your message
> I got the Sun StarOffice 5.1. CDROM from a friend. However, the CD=20
comes only with binaries for
> Windows, Linux and some others but not FreeBSD.

> As I have the ports-selection installed and the linuxbase, could I=20
install the linux-binaries
> through the ports selection?



Hello Bert,

Under FreeBSD, StarOffice-5.x, as well as other applications (eg the=20
bloated Acrobat Reader 4), runs in Linux emulation.

By the way, I downloaded the relevant (Linux) files from the Sun site;=20
they live in the appropriate directories --=20
/usr/ports/distfiles/staroffice5[2].

If you mount the StarOffice-5.1 CD under /cdrom, the ports mechanism=20
should do its job as usual, as a quick look at the related Makefile=20
confirms.

AFAICS, StarOffice 5.2 has a better support for M$ formats.


<disclaimer>

I run this kind of applications under 4-STABLE (source-updated from a=20
3.3-R).

AFAIR, StarOffice 5.1 worked under 3.3-R, and it will probably work=20
under 3.2-R.

</disclaimer>

HTH,
Salvo





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