From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 02:48:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18271065673 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:48:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dcdowse@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5ED4C8FC0C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2010 02:21:40 -0000 Received: from g227070150.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO bytebox.homeunix.net) [92.227.70.150] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 28 Dec 2010 03:21:40 +0100 X-Authenticated: #30106961 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/p5BVXI3TpuDCAf6kQ6SsKxEkDyhLD5Bn3spFtxe RshRBtGKTXi2zr Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:21:35 +0100 From: "Daniel C. Dowse" To: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <20101228032135.5d1edcc3.dcdowse@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20101228005759.GA41866@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20101228005759.GA41866@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "6rpsivo.nv06ZxRT,P{9thrPcg(Nu6j-uYorSRz{ACEM(|6Nhr|[Oa*7b}i:bDk(*>ps22 \>Zz$mi%txs^C50!P"|`87q'NGW'@$#Cr?&/xZUz>/zt+m-xk"bPjfWR-^; ZZFt]G; Y9j3,AxGf:YE v5!%)ZCcI%6>))$=w`Zx_#O$~Y[^k])Jrpy^8^?!p}AQVi7*Sc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Openoffice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:48:27 -0000 On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >Hi, > >It has been a long time since I tried to install Openoffice from >packages, but I would prefer not to have to build it. > >I have been fishing around at all the old sites where I found >it some years ago and can't seem to find anything reasonable. > >eg.: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ >and: >http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/ >I get lists of files that are not clear as to what to download plus when I try >to download one that looks like it is for FreeBSD 8.1 it fails complaining it >cannot change directory or find a directory. > >pkg_add -r fails with the following two messages. > >Error: Unable to get >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz: >No address record > >pkg_add: unable to fetch >'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz' >by URL > > >The latest thing I could get from freebsd.org was version 2.4.3_2 and I >had to manually download that. > >Is there anything more recent that is reliably available? > >By the way I tried Abiword and could not read in a plain text file - >one with just regular text created with vi. It made some irregular >blob in the middle of the page that looked like all the characters >mushed together. > >Otherwise I would be using that and ignoring Openoffice. > >////jerry > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, that is where i dwnld my oo pkg. http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ -> ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/ and I had no problems whatsoever with dwnld and installing it. cheers -- Daniel Dowse \\|// (o o) -----------ooO-(_)-Ooo--------------------------- - With great power comes great responsibility - -------------------------------------------------