From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 23:57:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6756B37B40E; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcmarpxy.tninet.se (bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se [62.5.36.29]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 504615.210551.1024.1s41919771lennier ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:55:51 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Gary D Kline , Bill Moran Subject: Re: Is anyone actually running Openoffice-1.0.0 successfully on FreeBSD? Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:55:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD-Questions , mbr@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1024182992.47848.9.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3D0BD0FF.8050003@potentialtech.com> <20020616000009.GB32456@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20020616000009.GB32456@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200206160855.50627.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> 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 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 fi= nd > > >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, pl= ease > > >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 Wind= ows > > build and have been pretty happy with it so far. Unfortunately, the = last > > time I looked at installing the FreeBSD version, it required somethin= g > > like 4G and my test machine isn't that spaceous. Before we can switc= h, > > we need something that runs on both our FreeBSD and Windows workstati= ons, > > so we haven't really used it too extensively yet. > > =094GB how! On this new server I've got 256M of RAM and 40G > =09disk.... What might help people like me who want to build > =09from src is to have a cheat-sheet of temporary system > =09configurations. ---I've been watching the OO build steps, > =09but with less than full attention. > > =09gary try 6 gb and nearly 8 hours to compile on a p3 650 384mb and scsi hardwar= e =20 raid and then sig 11 when you try and install. I have tried to get this=20 running on two different boxes, going as far as to reinstall one of them = and=20 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