From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed May 1 21:52:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from haggis.aae.uiuc.edu (haggis.aae.uiuc.edu [128.174.132.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B991637B416 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 21:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dmmcf@localhost) by haggis.aae.uiuc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g424qSD12391; Wed, 1 May 2002 23:52:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dmmcf@uiuc.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: haggis.aae.uiuc.edu: dmmcf set sender to dmmcf@uiuc.edu using -f To: FreeBSD-Emulation Subject: Re: Openoffice linux version References: <20020501224117.A17253@dca.net> From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:52:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020501224117.A17253@dca.net> (Chris Griffiths's message of "Wed, 1 May 2002 22:41:17 -0400") Message-ID: <86offzi22b.fsf@haggis.aae.uiuc.edu> Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Griffiths writes: > In case anyone is interested, There seem to be a few of us, yes. ;-) > I was able to install the OO 1.0 for linux on my -stable system using > linux_base 6.1 today. I have seen several posts before about previous > version working under linux_base-7 and so forth, but I have had zero luck > with any of them until today (The install usually core dumped). I'm probably missing something obvious here, but what changed? Is there a new OO installer available? I seem to recall something about weekly builds from the Codeweavers list, but I'm not keeping up with that list too well, either. > The install works flawlessly, no errors and OO works better than my > StarOffice6 beta that I had installed, (It even opened several docs that > SO6 had trouble with). I look forward to a native version, but for the > time being I can report that -stable can run OO 1.0. Can you edit equations in Word? Graphics? Thanks for reporting your success. I _really_ need something like this to work--Word and PowerPoint are taking over around here, and my little BSD habit (I can quit any time I want!) is coming to be viewed as a problem. Cheers, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Visiting Senior Research Scientist & Visiting Lecturer Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message