From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 14:16:31 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 B787F37B43E for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 14:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 2886 invoked by uid 100); 12 May 2001 21:16:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15101.43051.957343.374478@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 16:16:27 -0500 To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 and FreeBSD 4.3-S In-Reply-To: <78027977@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 Bill Schoolcraft types: > At Sat, 12 May 2001 it looks like Peter Ulrich Kruppa composed: > > What exactly do you mean by *.tar version? > > You will find the StarOffice source-code in > > www.openoffice.org > Well the file when downloading from SUN is a *.bin file, not a *.tar > file. While in "ports" attempting to do the install, the system said > (after erroring out) to place the *.tar file in > /usr/ports/distfiles/ etc. That sounds like the ports system is trying to use a generic that doesn't apply in this case. The port actually uses the .bin files. Could you by any chance provide the exact error message? Thanx, 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