>From: "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: openoffice too large >Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:30:02 -0600 >Hello- >I am trying to install openoffice from the ports on to a machine that only >has a >4 gig hard drive. During the installation it say it requires at least 4 >gigs of >free space to install. Obviously i cannot have that much free space, is >there a >way to get it installed on this computer with my situation? > >thanks, > >brian >
I, too, had the same problem with the amount of space needed to "install" openoffice. The partition holding /usr/ports was way too small on my machine. I finally cheated and copied the ports directory to a different (and larger) partition and made /usr/ports a symbolic link to it. The only problem I had was that the Makefiles seem busted for openoffice and I had to keep installing *.tz files by hand into the ./ports/distfiles/ directory from the various web sites. After a few hours of cursing, finally got a runable version of openoffice. I still have a problem in printing a postscript file produced by openoffice. Can anyone help me with this? Paul Fronberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. Doesn't seem to much documentation yet for openoffice. I found that the staroffice documentation (there are several books) is close enough to answer most questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
