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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:40:49 -0600
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        <duiker@haggis.nl>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection
Message-ID:  <200401271141.12573.racerx@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus>
References:  <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus>

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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 11:33 am, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> +> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:27 am, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> +> > Hi all!
> +> > I'm trying to install OpenOffice-1.1 on FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE.
> +> > The installation halts - which is in itself highly unusual.
> +>
> +> Forget building it - get the binary.
> +> http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/
> +>
> Good advice and thanks for it :-)
> There still appears to be a problem however, small though it may be.
> OO.org installer is asking to be pointed at a Java environment - and to
> the best of my (limited) knowledge - Java is not/may not be installed. I
> don't see any mention of it (by a name that makes sense, that is) within
> the ports collection.
> Any suggestions??
>
> Regards & TIA,
> -Colin

Java is NOT a requirement for the binary install. It does mention that some=
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functionality may be missing if you opt to install without Java.=20

I did so - and I can't see any issues.

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Best regards,
Chris
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