From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 17: 1:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage.thought.org (sense-kline-248.oz.net [216.39.168.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF0037BA2D; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao [216.39.168.250]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g5FNxKj25164; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g5G009u32733; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:00:09 -0700 From: Gary D Kline To: Bill Moran Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD-Questions , mbr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anyone actually running Openoffice-1.0.0 successfully on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020616000009.GB32456@tao.thought.org> References: <1024182992.47848.9.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3D0BD0FF.8050003@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D0BD0FF.8050003@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:42:55PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Stacey Roberts wrote: > >Hi, > > I'm hoping to introduce openoffice as a (long awaited) replacement for > >Star Office here. > > > >I checked the mailing lists (ports and questions), but could only find > >comments on various problems others have been having without any of the > >replies that indicates that anyone's actually got this installed and > >working (as it says on the tin). > > > >If anyone does indeed have openoffice-1.0.0 successfully running, please > >get let the rest of us know of your experiences with it, okay? > >Thanks. > > I don't know if it counts, but we've been experimenting with the Windows > build and have been pretty happy with it so far. Unfortunately, the last > time I looked at installing the FreeBSD version, it required something > like 4G and my test machine isn't that spaceous. Before we can switch, > we need something that runs on both our FreeBSD and Windows workstations, > so we haven't really used it too extensively yet. > 4GB how! On this new server I've got 256M of RAM and 40G disk.... What might help people like me who want to build from src is to have a cheat-sheet of temporary system configurations. ---I've been watching the OO build steps, but with less than full attention. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message