Hi Benton, To avoid all X11 garbage - just install NeoOffice - http://www.neooffice.org/ . It is free, open source, based on OpenOffice.org - and, best of all, it's completely Mac-Native. It's even Aquafied. If you ever manage to jump through all the hoops to get OpenOffice.org X11 installed on your Mac, I guarentee you are not going to like the way it works. The menus are all screwed up, and forget about trying to find files on your computer, OOo X11 uses a completely different file structure than Mac OS X. NeoOffice, on the other hand, does things right, and uses the Mac file structure, and Aqua's user interface, so things are where they are supposed to be.
On 9/3/06, Benton Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I have an intel based macbook pro and I've tried to install openoffice. But when I do, I get a message that says I must have X11 in order to run OpenOffice. So, I downloaded a package and tried to install X11. It told me I couldn't install because there is newer software on my computer already. So first I looked for this newer software that was supposed to already be installed and couldn't find it. Then I got my install disk out and installed X11 from there. I had no problems installing, but when it was finished, I looked for the icon in Applications/Utilities and it wasn't there. I also tried to open OpenOffice and it came back with the same message that X11 wasn't installed. Then I recently read an email on this list that said you had to use Spotlight to find the old file, then delete it before X11 would work. So I typed "X11" in Spotlight and it didn't find any executable files, just the pdfs and install packages I had downloaded. Has anyone solved this particular problem, and if so, how did you do it? thanks --Benton Time flies like and arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
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