Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:57:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Office - installation problem Message-ID: <20040425125749.GC62943@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040425123237.12021.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040425113045.GA62943@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040425123237.12021.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com>
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--S1BNGpv0yoYahz37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:32:37PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' > to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? =20 No -- in this case the files being referred to are in fact FreeBSD pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using 'tar -zxvf', but it won't do you a great deal of good. This isn't like the OO packages for other OSes, where you unpack a tar-ball and run an included shell script to copy everything into the appropriate locations. The FreeBSD pkg_add(1) program handles all that uncompressing, untarring and copying things completely automatically, as well as doing some additional stuff like registering the package in /var/db/pkgs =20 > Is it necessary to remove OOo-1.1 first which I > re-setup temperarily to work. You might be able to get away with having both OpenOffice-1.1 and OpenOffice-1.1.1 installed simultaneously, as they both install to separate subdirs of /usr/local. However, apart from using up huge amounts of disk space, I don't see that's going to do a great deal for you. OpenOffice-1.1.1 release is available via ports -- but apparently not yet as a precompiled package from http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ or the usual FreeBSD FTP sites. You can compile it yourself, but be warned: it's huge, has quite a long dependency list and takes geological ages to compile. Not for the faint hearted or those without a powerful machine. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAi7XNdtESqEQa7a0RAudaAKCXN0ZDNOaCw1xGkRg9hby7Qz2+7ACeL1aU wolGo1ZfRVBsceLu+iBWsrc= =6mAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37--
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