Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:55:50 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, mbr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anyone actually running Openoffice-1.0.0 successfully on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200206160855.50627.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> In-Reply-To: <20020616000009.GB32456@tao.thought.org> References: <1024182992.47848.9.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3D0BD0FF.8050003@potentialtech.com> <20020616000009.GB32456@tao.thought.org>
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On Sunday 16 June 2002 2:00 am, Gary D Kline wrote: > 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 try 6 gb and nearly 8 hours to compile on a p3 650 384mb and scsi hardware raid and then sig 11 when you try and install. I have tried to get this running on two different boxes, going as far as to reinstall one of them and just install open-office on that. I have yet to succeed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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