Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:49:50 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle <rob@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with Openoffice 2.0.2 on FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <20060718173121.H555@freebsd.connect-a.com.au>
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Dear All, I tried doing a pkg_add with OOo 2.0, but it refused, needing other packages and so I decided to build. (Sorry, I can't now remember where I got that package from). The build was straightforward, but took a while. Before building, I made sure to build java (jdk1.5.0) and to cvsup the ports. The knobs I used were: -DWITHKDE -DWITHOUT_MOZILLA LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB The "WITHOUT_MOZILLA" was because it first started to download an earlier version of Mozilla than that which is already installed. I'm not sure about the Java since I know very little about Java - I had thought that jdk1.5.0 was native for FreeBSD, but I'm now not so sure. Also, I noticed today that there was a file called "src.zip" in the /usr/local/jdk1.5.0 directory that I had not noticed nor unzipped before the build. I have now unzipped that file and pointed OOo to the jdk1.5.0 version (under "Tools - Preferences"). That's the background, here is the problem. OOo2.0.2 works well and is a great improvement over its predecessor, StarOffice 5.2. However, in trying to open almost any document not made by OOo2.0.2 I get "General error - General I/O error". I can open some documents (e.g. spreadsheets) by inserting them, but others (e.g. StarWriter files, MS Office documents) can not be opened at all. I am sure that I have done something wrong in the build, but what is it and how can I undo it or redo it? Thanks for your help, Rob Hurle ----------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013 Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 Ainslie Cell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: rob@coombs.anu.edu.au -----------------------------------------------------
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