Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:32:37 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= <satimis@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Office - installation problem Message-ID: <20040425123237.12021.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040425113045.GA62943@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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- snip - > > No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. > > Errr... folks -- packages *are* .tgz files. Except > under 5.x where > they are .tbz files. They could just as well be > .zip files, or some > sort of compressed cpio format like .rpms or Solaris > packages. It's > just a mechanism for gathering a bunch of files and > directories > together into a single container for easy download. > And the > compression is just so that the maximum number of > packages can be > fitted into the space available. Hi Matthew, Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? Is it necessary to remove OOo-1.1 first which I re-setup temperarily to work. TIA B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk
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