Hello Kevin, Did you install the binary that you downloaded via fink? If not, how did you get it to work on Mac? thanks, Brian On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 11:17, Kevin Horton wrote: > On 1 Jul 2005, at 23:09, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > From: "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 1 July 2005 22:10:07 GMT-04:00 > > To: "Brian O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Fink Beginners <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] openoffice > > > > > > Brian O'Keefe wrote: > > > > > Well that is really weird. I searched the database and nothing. > > > When I > > > used the link you provided there it was. Strange, very strange. > > > Oh well, thanks Alexander. Any idea when the package will go > > > binary? the > > > compiling seems to be quite and issue with disc space according to > > > what > > > I have seen on posts. > > > Again, many thanks > > > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:44, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry about the duplicate message, by the way--my mail program and > > the mail server were in a battle of wills and the original message > > wasn't tagged as replied to. > > > > Like every other package, this won't go binary until it builds > > reliably for most everybody and can be moved to stable. > > > I believe that openoffice.org should get special treatment. The build > takes, a very, very long time, and the last time I tried it needed > over 37 GB of disk space (I'm not sure how much disk space it needs - > my build attempt failed when the disk ran out of space). I did > download the binary > from http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asari/OpenOffice.org/, and > it worked fine. I suspect that many, many more people will be able to > use the binary than would be able to compile it. > > I believe that openoffice.org should be released as a binary now. > Kevin Horton > Ottawa, Canada >
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