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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:08:47 +1000
From:      David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice
Message-ID:  <20030606070847.GM31266@thingy.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <3EE003D2.3060104@users.sourceforge.net>
References:  <20030504202939.172dfd9c.erichey2@attbi.com> <557450000.1052101810@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> <3EE003D2.3060104@users.sourceforge.net>

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Rob Lahaye (lahaye@users.sourceforge.net) [030606 12:58]:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:

> > visit:
> > http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice
> > and you can download a pre-built package.

> Why has this not yet become part of the precompiled package
> selection of FreeBSD, so that everyone can find it where one
> expect it to be found?


It has. But it doesn't, ah, work. Trying to use it feels like using Mozilla
did in 2000 - you can see the hard work that's going into it, but for
actual day-to-day use it's not up to beta status.

After beating my head against the FreeBSD version (and I wish them only the
best in getting it to work properly), I eventually downloaded the Linux
binary. Which works very well with linux_base-7 installed.


- d.





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