On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +0000 > > Matthew Faircliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word > >> docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast! > >> > >> I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD! > > > > Why didn't you just get the FreeBSD precompiled packages for OO-1.1 ?? > > ?? Where/How would I get that? > > I'd love to get 1.1 installed on my FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE machine, but > I don't want to cvsup my ports tree because then I wouldn't be able to > install packages. I'd have to build everything from source. > > Maybe I just don't understand how to use the ports tree 100% yet...
If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either ports or packages. Ports are just a very easy automated/scripted way to compile an application from source on your machine, rather than use a package that has been pre-compiled. Jud _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
