From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 06:40:30 2005 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 9585516A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:40:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3EF43D53 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 06:40:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j046eM5n049462 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:40:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 04 Jan 2005 07:40:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? 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, 04 Jan 2005 06:40:30 -0000 Kris Kennaway writes: > Yes, it's in the ports tree. I don't think we've ever included a > linux openoffice port - are you perhaps thinking of staroffice, for > which a freebsd binary is not produced by sun? There's been quite a few reports of people having trouble getting past the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to download and install a binary package from somewhere in the general direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"