From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 06:18:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0FE16A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBF543D53 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:18:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36104DEE8 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:20:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA4B4DEE7 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:20:02 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <425F5C9B.3030402@roq.com> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:18:03 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050331 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: amd64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Openoffice2 success on Amd64 linux emu X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:18:57 -0000 Hey all, I dunno if this is news to any one but installed OpenOffice2 Linux beta on FreeBSD AMD64 with success Its running on this kernel. FreeBSD mylaptop 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Apr 3 23:26:59 EST 2005 michael@mylaptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I been using it for a few weeks now with no problems, except that I must run it as root (just doing "su" from an xterm when launching it) if I run as a regular user it crashes, I don't believe this is specific problem to this as I also have to do it to open office 1.1 as well. On my old install of AMD64 I never did. For those who like instructions here is some reasonable detail of what I did. Install Linux 8 emulation portupgrade -RN /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/ Install Linux Xlibs portupgrade -RN linux-XFree86-libs Add this to /etc/rc.conf linux_enable="YES" Add this to /etc/fstab to mount the linux proc fs none /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 Mount it, mount -a Download the OpenOffice2 Linux X86 version. Currently its only available in RPM format so I converted it to tar using rpm2cpio portupgrade -RN rpm2cpio I then used a dodgey perl script to convert it into tar files, this could be done in a 1 liner in shell but perls my unbreakable habit. In the directory where the rpms are downloaded to i ran this. #!/usr/bin/perl $files = `ls`; @files = split(/\n/,$files); foreach $file (@files) { system("rpm2cpio $file > $file.tar"); } Extract the created tar files ls | grep tar | xargs -n 1 tar -xf ~/RPMS/opt/openoffice.org1.9.79/program/soffice Note I also installed the Linux 1.5 Java from the sun web site. Cheers, Mike