From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 15:40:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01FD16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:40:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD46143D46 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:40:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:10050 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmwDi-000Neh-S3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:40:10 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104791A9A7 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:40:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (82-197-198-30.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.198.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7336B3701E for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:40:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41DEAD57.2070706@scii.nl> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:40:07 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD mailinglist References: <41DEAAFA.1050504@att.net> In-Reply-To: <41DEAAFA.1050504@att.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:40:12 -0000 Duane Winner wrote: > Sigh......it's always OpenOffice that gives me headaches. > > I tried to just do a pkg_add -rv openoffice and that got me > openoffice-1.1.2, which I guess I could live with until it gets fixed, > but then I discovered during 'openoffice-1.1.2-setup' that characters > were overlapping in all of the dialogs and menus. I don't know if that > was a problem with my display or the character set/language, but I just > ripped out the package in frustration. there's more info here : http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ build-instructions, known problems and alternative downloads one other thing to try is running OOo through linux-emulation