OpenOffice with JRE or without?

2006-05-12 Thread jjhartley
In investigating what's needed to install  configure OpenOffice, I see on 
their Website that I have the choice of downloading it with or without the JRE. 
 Remembering some of traffic here discussing the issues of installing/compiling 
Java 1.5, how stable is the Linux JRE on OpenBSD?  Am I better off downloading 
OpenOffice without the JRE  expect to build it myself?  In this case, am I 
forced to install/compile Java before installing OpenOffice?

Thanks for any shared candor.

j



Re: OpenOffice with JRE or without?

2006-05-12 Thread Bryan Brake

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In investigating what's needed to install  configure OpenOffice, I see on their 
Website that I have the choice of downloading it with or without the JRE.  Remembering 
some of traffic here discussing the issues of installing/compiling Java 1.5, how stable 
is the Linux JRE on OpenBSD?  Am I better off downloading OpenOffice without the JRE 
 expect to build it myself?  In this case, am I forced to install/compile Java 
before installing OpenOffice?

Thanks for any shared candor.


You don't really need Java to run OpenOffice 2.x. 
 I have downloaded and ran OO with redhat 
emulation, and after starting OO, it just says it 
can't find JRE.  The program will continue to 
startup and in the options section, you can 
click on the java portion and unselect Use a 
Java runtime environment


I've had no problems with OO 2.x.  I've been told 
that certain applications will not work with this, 
but I use writer, calc, and impress with no issues...



Regards,

Bryan

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be both

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