On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:21:35 +0100, "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdo...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, that is where i dwnld my oo pkg. > > http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ -> > > ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/ > > and I had no problems whatsoever with dwnld and installing it.
I've also tried them (older version 3.2.0) on 8.0-p2 and there was no problem installing them. But the final program would not run. I have to mention that I did use one of the german localized variants, but the one I needed (without all the KDE, Gnome and CUPS stuff) was not available at that time. I think the pacakges you can find through the mentioned FTP link have been built with the default options of the OpenOffice port, so there is no guarantee is has (or not has) the options that YOU need - hopefully a working piece of software instead of "WARNING **: unable to get gail version number". Hope you're lucky. Can you imagine that in the past, you could so something as simple as "pkg_add -r de-openoffice" and you had a fully working office suite including (!) a dictionary? Good times are over, gotta get your dictionaries manually today... :-( So I may say: The way *I* am going to handle OpenOffice is that I will schedule some idle time to compile it. This is the only way to get it in the form I need, including all dependencies. Tailored configuration is for sissies, just install all the stuff you don't need along with it. It seems that it's not worth the time trying to get rid of the unused parts. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
