From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 09:42:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A673916A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:42:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F45A43D66 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:42:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from 192.168.2.137 (unknown [12.15.124.131]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432916108; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:41:13 -0600 (CST) From: Chris To: , Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:40:49 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus> In-Reply-To: <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401271141.12573.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:42:56 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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= =20 functionality may be missing if you opt to install without Java.=20 I did so - and I can't see any issues. =2D --=20 Best regards, Chris =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAFqK2D5P/gMAbw2MRAuGfAJ9QUV4XnHoApHjrqmOPPq65dU89xgCfWhPu 2oM/zF9+BZfDxzHwhLSgY9o=3D =3DnvpQ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----