From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 8:51:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 962EB37B405 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:51:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from j211.kch19.jaring.my (HELO acidic.ars.org) (161.142.45.225) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 15:51:30 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:01:02 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <412363859.20010731000102@yahoo.co.uk> To: Andrew Gould Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: problem installing Star Office 5.2 port from CD In-Reply-To: <20010729213922.89798.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010729213922.89798.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Monday, July 30, 2001, 05:39:22 AM, Andrew Gould wrote: ... > Are you referring to files in > /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52/ or files that are > downloaded from the internet? The files that can be > downloaded from Sun are not the same as the files on > the Star Office CD. The port allows for the use of > the 'setup' on the Star Office CD. I just can't seem > to get it to work. i too bought a 5.2 cd recently and am facing the exact same problem as you are. up 'til now, i still can't get it to install (through the ports) no matter what. i did manage to install from the cdrom by calling the 'setup' program, which works, but executing ~/Office52/soffice returned a '~/Office52/javaldx not found' and '~/soffice.bin not found' error. pretty strange cause soffice.bin is in my ~/Office52/program folder. a few months back, i was doing the same thing on a 5.1a cd as well. that took me quite a while to figure out until i discovered that it had to download 3 separate files for the installation. 5.2 totally different. there is no separate file -- just one huge chunk of bin files (from the ftp site) about 97mb or so. i'm on a dialup as well so downloading that huge a file is ridiculously ridiculous :) if you've got a 5.1a cd somewhere, i'd suggest you use that first. otherwise, try some other methods till you get it i suppose. i'm giving it a rest for now and will look into it some other day. but if you do get to fix it, you'll let me know too wont you? :) > Thanks, > Andrew ~as -- Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message