Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:08:10 -0500 From: "Terry L. Tyson Jr." <ty@tyson.homeunix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Office - installation problem Message-ID: <20040424230810.GA43744@tyson.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040424174950.GC8233@freebsd.jolok.org> References: <20040424122728.75028.qmail@web40305.mail.yahoo.com> <20040424152716.GA43241@tyson.homeunix.org> <20040424174950.GC8233@freebsd.jolok.org>
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: > No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. But yes, you do need to > go do some reading, and there very likely are other things you will need > to do. As a previous responder noted, when you 'su -' it simulates a > full root login, which puts you in root's home dir. I note that you > said when you attempted to correctly add the pkg, it hung. It's big. > Use the pkg_add command, perhaps with -v so you can see what's > happening, and install the darned thing. > > -- > Joshua Oops, my bad. Didn't look close enough before responding. I installed OO just the other day on 4.9 using a .tgz file. It worked quite well. HTH -- Terry
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