Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:20:16 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: simon.burke@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports Message-ID: <200412071620.iB7GKIR03054@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <2d7d2dd20412070240193dd5a8@mail.gmail.com> from "Simon Burke" at Dec 07, 2004 10:40:53 AM
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> > On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:37:14 -0800, Tabor Kelly > <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> wrote: > > Simon Burke wrote: > > > > > > > I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup > > > to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. > > > > > > Problem is that it wont allow me to compile openoffice properly, i > > > cant give an error message as its about 7hrs in i get the message > > > and i've since made clean. > > > > > > Does anyone know if it is broken? or how i can get an openoffice > > > release installed, as 1.0 is apparentlyu broken according to ports and > > > 1.1 wont compile sucessfully. > > > > > > > Neither can I, I am also running FreeBSD 5.3R, and I attempted to > > install OpenOffice 1.1 via 'portinstall openoffice' As has been mentioned by someone in this thread, you have to have built some java stuff first. I am not sure why the openoffice install doesn't deal with that dependancy - maybe it does, but you had something missing for the java install. But, fortunately you do not have to go through all that or even the Openoffice build which does take forever. There are already built packages available at: http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/ or: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ though they have only FreeBSD 5.2 listed and not 5.3 at the moment. It saves hours of time and really works. Just download the appropriate .tbz (or tgz for earlier versions). make a /usr/local/openoffice directory. Go to that directory and run run pkg-add on the .tbz file Then follow any directions it prints. The only odd thing I have noticed is that the instructions that came with the one I installed said to run (whatever path)/openoffice but actually the thing to run is: (whatever path)/soffice probably: /usr/local/openoffice/program/soffice to start things up - the first time it wants to do a configure. Also, it seems to need a couple of files created if I remember - something like: (whatever path)/openoffice/user/config/soffice.cfg and some other one. So, after you do the install, but before you first try to run soffice, go to that directory and do a touch soffice.cfg Sorry I don't remember the other one at the moment, but it will complain if it doesn't find it so you can tell that way. Then add the open office directory to your path. Maybe they have fixed these things in the install script since I last tried it. If so, happy day. Anyway, downloading the appropriate precompiled binary and installing it is, by far, the easiest way for Openoffice. If you have some esotheric options you want compiled in, of course the precompiled version will not have it. But, I haven't missed anything I really wanted. ////jerry > > > > Here is the error that I got: > > > > <snip build output> > >
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