Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 07:50:30 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 Message-ID: <200609040750.30916.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com>
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On Monday 04 September 2006 02:08, Perry Hutchison wrote: > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. > richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select "bold" it > writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: > > Message backtrace: > bold > bold > OutOfBounds: offset 0, size 0 > _______________________________________________ You can go to http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ and download openoffice2.0.3 pre-built binaries from there. I would suggest that, rather than trying to build it. You're probably going to need java. I suggest getting the pre-built binary for diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.00, you can get it here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml Try to save yourself as much pain as possible. Building openoffice from ports tends to fall in the category of pain. Don
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