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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