From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 5: 9:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BFA37B402 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 05:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:09:27 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16jK5k-0002Jp-00; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:07:24 +0000 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:07:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Linux software In-Reply-To: <20020308070159.3DAF237B402@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > I want to thank all of You who contributed an answer to my cuestions > in this matter. But.... If I want to install StarOffice on my fBSD > box, and I have a CD with StarOffice for Linux, how do I do? My > impression is that the port will make a contact with a suitable site > and make a download. Have a look in the port to see what file(s) it's fetching; if you stick the appropriate files in /usr/ports/distfiles, the ports system is smart enough to not try to fetch them twice. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Whenever I see a dog salivate I get an insatiable urge to ring a bell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message