Peter, JRE is the acronym for Java Runtime Environment. Because java is an interpreted language, a java program needs an interpreter to be able to translate a java program into a machine readable form. Perhaps some of the openoffice.org's functionality were develop using java, maybe that's the reason why it needs a Java Runtime Environment. If you need to know more about Java, try visiting http://sun.java.com
Java has already been ported to FreeBSD. You can find one here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/DL/28994/DL Download the one that looks like this: diablo-jre-1.3.1.0.tgz At this very moment while I'm sending this to you, I'm still completing the download of openoffice.org-1.1.2. I've already downloaded jre but still haven't tried it yet. Best of luck -jay __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
