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Date:      Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:30:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Rob Mason <rob@bsdbox.homeunix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice 2.0 under Gnome 2.12.1
Message-ID:  <20051111203215.G88602@www.pukruppa.net>
In-Reply-To: <4374D5D5.5040904@bsdbox.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Rob Mason wrote:

> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Rob Mason wrote:
>> 
>>> I have the linux module loaded, but must confess that I've never had the 
>>> need to use it. How would I go about install the linux versions of OOo - 
>>> pkg_add???
>> 
>> No, sorry it won't be that simple.
>> 1) Download the Linux stuff from www.openoffice.org - mine is
>> called
>> OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar.gz (de for german)
>> 2) # gunzip OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar.gz
>> 3) # tar zxf OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar
>> which will produce a - besides other stuff - a directory
>> called RPMS .
>> 4) # cd RPMS
>> 5) # rpm -i --nodeps --ignorearch --ignoreos *
>> 6) For some Linux reasons all executables now are placed in a
>> directory called /opt/openoffice.org2.0
>> 
>> Good Luck!
>> 
>> Uli.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Rgds
>>> 
>>> Rob
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *********************************************
>> * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany *
>> *********************************************
>
> Many thanks - it appeared to install, but the folloiwng error appeared when I 
> tried to run 'soffice'
>
> /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin.bin: error while loading shared 
> libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
O.K. here starts the difficult part. I have got some hundred 
ports installed and probably all the right ones I need for this.
I think you need
/usr/ports/x11/linux-XFree86-libs

Uli.



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* Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany *
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