From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 05:15:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7901065672 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 05:15:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from pluto.karoo.kcom.com (pluto.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2F58FC0C for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 05:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,503,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="45833346" Received: from unknown (HELO glynthebearded.millingtons.org) ([82.152.120.109]) by pluto.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 18 May 2008 06:15:45 +0100 Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C71C229AD; Sun, 18 May 2008 06:16:51 +0100 (BST) To: John Wynstra References: <482C9DE5.60906@nyc.rr.com> <20080515205252.GA2821@osiris.chen.org.nz> <482CEA3E.1090402@nyc.rr.com> <20080516035346.GA35105@osiris.chen.org.nz> <482DDA7B.6020201@nyc.rr.com> <482DF607.4050209@nyc.rr.com> <482E294B.8010408@nyc.rr.com> <482F061D.7020307@nyc.rr.com> <20080517181438.GA4418@shepherd> <482F3B18.4030302@nyc.rr.com> <8663tcpsu4.fsf@nowhere.org> <482F7A89.7070705@nyc.rr.com> Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Solemnity: Most Holy Trinity, A.D. 2008 From: Glyn Millington Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 06:16:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <482F7A89.7070705@nyc.rr.com> (John Wynstra's message of "Sat\, 17 May 2008 20\:38\:33 -0400") Message-ID: <86iqxcyyws.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , Sahil Tandon Subject: Re: another problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 05:15:47 -0000 John Wynstra writes: > I applied this fix, it worked for the previous problem and I came to > the next one. The story of my life :-) > I am getting the impression this is very filthy code. Couldn't possibly comment! Not sure I can help directly with this one but ...... 1. Is your ports tree up to date? And have you run pkgdb -F lately just to make the database is in good shape? I'm pretty sure that's NOT the problem here but never does any harm to check :-) 2. There are ways around building openoffice natively. This was a major step for me as I need the thing occasionally and my hardware is too antique to build it that way. You can either A. Install a native FreeBSD binary package - take a look in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/ I'm told this should run on a -7.0-release system too. But no guarantees! B. Install a *Linux* binary and run that through FreeBSD's compatibility set-up. This is what I am currently doing and it works perfectly as far as I can tell. Detailed instructions here http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/linux_openoffice.html One other thought - it helps if you reply _beneath_ the person to whom you are replying. That way Question and Answer follow in logical order, which helps if there are several layers of Q and A hth Glyn