Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:03:59 -0600 From: "Colby W." <colbyw@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone have any luck installing openoffice? Message-ID: <5bc25b710803181403w3137d4c3wcd431ff3501b44cf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803182051350.15113@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803182140370.8553@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803182051350.15113@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 21:45 +0100, ante@Update.UU.SE confabulated: > > > > No I have tried to manually download the package for openoffice, which barfed > > since dependencies where not present. > > > > pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package where it should have been > > on the site to download. > > > > I have tried to build from source as well and that fails since the source can > > not be found. (ports tree updated) > > > > How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right now. > > > > It was't this hard last time I tried. > > Installed fine here under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from the ports tree: > > /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2 > > without any errors. Of course I had to manually download the required Java > stuff. I tried this shortly after 7.0 was released and the Java portion of building OpenOffice-2 from ports wanted an old tzupdater that Sun no longer provides. I have yet to update my ports tree so I don't know if that has been corrected yet or not; if not, where does one get the tzupdater 1.3.0_2007h (I think that's the version it asked for)? Thanks, Colby
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