Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:35:36 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu> Cc: ffkrz@iafrica.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE Message-ID: <20010526103536.2ecd40df.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10105261256570.38376-100000@acs5.bu.edu> References: <3B0FB1BE.15BB7ABF@iafrica.com> <Pine.A41.4.10.10105261256570.38376-100000@acs5.bu.edu>
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It appears Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu>, on Sat, 26 May 2001 13:00:10 -0400 (EDT) wrote something like: > Star Office is part of the FreeBSD ports system. It's best to install it > through there (usually /usr/ports). I believe it's under editors. I'm > sure someone else has more experience with this. I personally have not > tried it yet. > > ~mike I tried it from the ports system. It installed without any problems, ran extremely slow on my amd k6-2/350 w/64megs ram. I removed within a few days it was so unbearably slow. Word Perfect is faster on this machine, to the point to make it usable. I s'pose I should buy a faster machine some day. -- Chip > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Francois Kritzinger wrote: > > > If anyone knows please explain how to install StarOffice 5.2 on FreeBSD > > 4.2. > > > > I ran the .bin script (with AND without the /net option), and the > > installation program "completed successfully". I also changed the paths > > in the programs/setup and programs/soffice scripts. > > When I run soffice, it says that it can't find the file user/sofficerc, > > even though it IS there. > > After running it with the /net option, it won't let me run the setup > > script as a non-root user. It says that "SO is already installed...". It > > works when I'm root, though. > > > > I've tried everything I can think of to fix it, no success. This is > > frustrating. Please help. > > > > Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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