From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 10: 3:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61A3537B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 10:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 87506 invoked by uid 100); 12 May 2001 17:03:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15101.27851.962381.59101@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:03:07 -0500 To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa , bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk Bill Schoolcraft Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 and FreeBSD 4.3-S In-Reply-To: <101481109@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Ulrich Kruppa types: > > i'm would like to install staroffice 5.1 from the cd (from sun) but > > wanted to know in advance if there is anything i should look out for. > Sorry, I only run StarOffice5.2, but perhaps I can be of some help: > 1) Have a look at your ports-directory, i.e. do you have a file > /usr/ports/editors/staroffice ? > 2) If that is so, mount your StarOffice CDROM > 3) # cd /usr/ports/editors/staroffice > 4) # make > 5) # make install > > After about 15 minutes everything should have worked out fine :-) > (No, probably it will not, but you are going to mail any problems, won't > you?) Actually, it will probably fail because the port wants staroffice 5.2, not 5.1 Bill Schoolcraft types: > At Fri, 11 May 2001 it looks like Bob Greene composed: > > Chuck the CD and ftp the 5.2 version instead. It's swell. > > > I've also been looking for the *.tar version and have yet to locate > a site that will "accept" a connection. Any ideas ? If by that, you mean sources, you can try digging out the original checkin from sun at OpenOffice, but that's a StarOffice 6 beta, and you'd have to do the port. You'd be better off contacting the person who is working on the OpenOffice port, and seeing if you could help out there. > I advertise FreeBSD at my work (a Linux company) but have to either > use my Solaris or Linux box to walk StarOffice customers through > problems, FreeBSD is my main box at work except for that issue. > > I've tried to build from /usr/ports/ but to no avail. It doesn't build from ports, it downloads linux binaries. There's some strange interaction with root's shell. Simply running the make from a different shell fixes it, but check the -questions archives for details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message