Open Office Install

2011-03-08 Thread Rem P Roberti
While trying in install Open Office the install choked at one point and I received this error message: snip Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/uiconfig/layout Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/qa/unoapi Entering /usr

Open Office

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I just installed Open Office (openoffice.org-2.4.2_1) from the ports on a new 6.4 amd64 machine. It installed fine, but whenever I start it, it comes back asking me for the user set-up. (same thing with OpenOffice 3 from the ports). When I try to save a document it pops-up: General Input

Re: Open Office

2009-04-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Sorry I should have searched around before asking :( I just installed Open Office (openoffice.org-2.4.2_1) from the ports on a new 6.4 amd64 machine. It installed fine, but whenever I start it, it comes back asking me for the user set-up. (same thing with OpenOffice 3 from the ports

Open Office

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Huff
Olivier Nicole writes: I just installed Open Office (openoffice.org-2.4.2_1) from the ports on a new 6.4 amd64 machine. It installed fine, but whenever I start it, it comes back asking me for the user set-up. (same thing with OpenOffice 3 from the ports). When I try to save

Open office won't open files Error: GObject-CRITICAL......

2008-09-11 Thread Alasdair Reed
Hi, am having a problem with OpenOffice2.4.0, it will not open any files. It just hangs when trying to open from the open file menu. I get the following error message on the terminal that OO was opened in (process:1882): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2248: initialization assertion failed,

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-08 Thread Albert Shih
Le 07/10/2007 à 19:18:04-0700, Christopher Cowart a écrit On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:10:56AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) uname -a FreeBSD monsert

wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct 7 20:47:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 I don't want to

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:10:56AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct 7 20:47:51 UTC 2007

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Aryeh Friedman wrote: I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct 7 20:47:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile lyx and I like it so far. You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks. From what

Re[2]: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Gerard
On October 06, 2007 at 01:42AM Erich Dollansky wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? As well as potentially allowing your documents to be viewed by anyone with the time and or knowledge to hack into your account. No thanks, I certainly would not want

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread icantthinkofone
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big public mail/news/etc services. as google gets stronger and stronger just means that for most people using brain is too painful. but it's really worth of do you really want the world to know what you are writing?

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big public mail/news/etc services. There are two separate concerns here. 1. General Privacy: If you're concerned with your documents and communications being

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread icantthinkofone
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big public mail/news/etc services. There are two separate concerns here. 1. General Privacy: If you're concerned with your documents

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:51:49PM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Chad Perrin wrote:

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:34:41AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? Erich

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-05 Thread michaelgrunewald
Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mine are always heavy in equations and chemistry. I had a five minute try of openoffice writer's equation editor, and my first impression was that it renders equations very poorly. It seems to do this even worse thant MS Word. Since you seem to use the

Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better. Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations. What I do personally is a kludge, but it works well enough. For documents that I create for read-only

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better. Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations. What I do personally is a kludge, but it works

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just use Word in a VM and am done with it. Have you

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On 10/4/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:13 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex... That may be true, but trust me, the faculty with whom I work just would not do it. No way, no how,

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 12:34 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: Have you tried LyX? I'm aware of it, and will indeed try it one of these days, but that is not the issue. I'm fine with troff -- I've used it for so many years that I can get it to jump through hoops. Time has passed it by, though, so

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-05 Thread icantthinkofone
Frank Jahnke wrote: what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your problem is underspecified. 1) Collaboration (complex). If you

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64. replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) WBR

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
since when... tried it last week and nothing On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Robert Huff
Aryeh Friedman writes: editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64. since when... tried it last week and nothing Don't know how it affects amd64, but I know patches have been committed in the last calendar week. What would not build on i386 then just finished building

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
Please, don't top-post. On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good editors/openoffice.org-2

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread usleepless
On 10/4/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) abiword, gnumeric

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Henry Lenzi
If you don't mind paying for software, I think you'll find SoftMaker's Textmaker and Planmaker tools wholly satisfatory. Their spreadsheets is fully compatible with Excel. They make their products for FreeBSD. Additionally, if you find quirks, they answer you (once I even saw one of their guys

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, don't top-post. On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread NetOpsCenter
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT? no -- huge library mismatches -- Philip M. Gollucci

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT? no -- huge library mismatches Why? Isn't

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:11:04 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Frank Jahnke
what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your problem is underspecified. 1) Collaboration (complex). If you collaborate with colleagues who

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your problem is underspecified. 1)

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 01:20 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: 1) Collaboration (complex). Read/write .doc, pdf and rtf mainly 2) Document creation. WYSIWYG editing for the above including embedded graphics and equations I also want to keep the learn curve as small as possible (I know

Re: Upload a binary of Open Office 2

2006-06-23 Thread Rico
Thanks Zeng Nan! Didn't know that. Zeng Nan wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:34:16AM +0200, Rico wrote: Hi, Would someone, with access, mind compiling Open Office 2 for FreeBSD 6 stable, and uploading it to the FreeBSD server? Best and kind regards, Rico

Upload a binary of Open Office 2

2006-06-22 Thread Rico
Hi, Would someone, with access, mind compiling Open Office 2 for FreeBSD 6 stable, and uploading it to the FreeBSD server? Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Upload a binary of Open Office 2

2006-06-22 Thread Zeng Nan
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:34:16AM +0200, Rico wrote: Hi, Would someone, with access, mind compiling Open Office 2 for FreeBSD 6 stable, and uploading it to the FreeBSD server? Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Micah wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Please submit

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread usleepless
Chris, this is a resend with cc:freebsd-questions, sorry. On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? ...zip... i don't have suggestions, but i

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris Maness wrote: I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Check your hardware, sig 9's from the compiler indicate overheating or bad memory. Building OO

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:08, Chris Maness wrote: I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Micah
Chris Maness wrote: I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. dmake

Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Micah wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org

Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Maness
I just updated my ports and tried to compile open office. got this failure while trying to compile. Any suggestions? g++-ooo: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. dmake: Error code 1, while

OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings! For the sake of a continuing happy marriage ! I really need to install OPenOffice 2 on a machine at home - soon to be running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) :-) I can't build the port because the hard drive is too small - just enough spare space for the compiling. Is it possible to do this

Re: OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/4/05, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! For the sake of a continuing happy marriage ! I really need to install OPenOffice 2 on a machine at home - soon to be running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) :-) I can't build the port because the hard drive is too small - just enough

Re: OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Glyn Millington
Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just try to pkg_add it. OO doesn't require Java to run, only to build. Brilliant!! This (about Java) was what I needed to know. There are some run-dependencies, you can see them here: http://www.freshports.org/editors/openoffice.org-2.0/ Sorry -

Re: open office freeze

2005-03-21 Thread FreeBSD Questions
I too have this problem on my laptop. I was wondering if there is any trick to killing a run away process like open office. I have tried to kill -9 it to no avail and killing its parent process only makes it change its parent process to init. I usually end up restarting but that is sub optimal

Re: open office freeze

2005-03-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:38 AM, FreeBSD Questions wrote: I too have this problem on my laptop. I was wondering if there is any trick to killing a run away process like open office. I have tried to kill -9 it to no avail and killing its parent process only makes it change its parent process to init

open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i've been waiting for long time to start using open office tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience to install it on my freebsd laptop. well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java ports and 12 hours (on a 2.2ghz laptop!?!?) of build of the oo-1.1 port

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 27 February 2005 07:25 am, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i've been waiting for long time to start using open office tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience to install it on my freebsd laptop. well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java ports

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread kalin mintchev
what now? I've seen this problem too when I'm using the nvidia driver with the RenderAccel option. Once I turned it off openoffice no longer froze the machine. I think it's an nvidia driver problem that hopefully will be fixed in the next release. Whenever that will be. but mine is

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread Chris Hodgins
kalin mintchev wrote: what now? I've seen this problem too when I'm using the nvidia driver with the RenderAccel option. Once I turned it off openoffice no longer froze the machine. I think it's an nvidia driver problem that hopefully will be fixed in the next release. Whenever that will be.

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread kalin mintchev
Yeah, I have noticed OOo freeze a few times lately myself. It should also be noted that I tried to kill -9 it with no effect. Looks a bit locked up waiting for something. exactly the same thing.. another one - i mentioned it before but nobody said anything - is when using firefox i can not

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 27 February 2005 05:32 pm, kalin mintchev wrote: Yeah, I have noticed OOo freeze a few times lately myself. It should also be noted that I tried to kill -9 it with no effect. Looks a bit locked up waiting for something. exactly the same thing.. another one - i mentioned it

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread John
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:25:49 -0500 (EST), kalin mintchev wrote hi all... i've been waiting for long time to start using open office tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience to install it on my freebsd laptop. well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java

Re: open office freeze

2005-02-27 Thread kalin mintchev
on a 2.2 GHz t30 thinkpad.. i got the binaries from the open office website and it works fine now with the java i installed from ports - it's a newer version too. if i knew that there are binaries before i'd hever wait for 12 hours to get it build from the port... thanks... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Errors on portinstall of Open Office

2004-10-15 Thread Bill Schmitt
I've had the portinstall of Open Office running for several days now (literally). It just completed with the errors below and I'm hoping someone can help tell me what I need to do to fix it or complete the process. I'm stuck here. Bill Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial

Re: Errors on portinstall of Open Office

2004-10-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:30:41PM -0400, Bill Schmitt wrote: I've had the portinstall of Open Office running for several days now (literally). It just completed with the errors below and I'm hoping someone can help tell me what I need to do to fix it or complete the process. I'm stuck here

Re: Errors on portinstall of Open Office

2004-10-15 Thread Bill Schmitt
Okay, thanks. The jdk port was nested in there, so I didn't dig that deep. I'll give it a try Bill Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:30:41PM -0400, Bill Schmitt wrote: I've had the portinstall of Open Office running for several days now (literally). It just

Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread h.kriege
Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Russell J. Wood
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:41AM +0200, h.kriege wrote: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's in the ports collection (/usr/ports/editors). - Russell pgpUg00pRRJlt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Michal Pasternak
h.kriege [Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:41AM +0200]: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? Hello, Yes - both native and linux Open Offoice work. -- m signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Risdon
h.kriege wrote: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? Hi, yes there are several options in /usr/ports/editors It's a huge compile, though, needs something like 3GB of hard drive and takes a while. Installing as a package is another option. You also, IIRC, have to jump through Sun's java

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? regards, Yes. It is in the ports. But, it is easier to install from a package because its build requires a huge amount of space. So go to: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ Find the appropriate version, download it, put it in

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Terry L. Tyson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-24 08:32]: It's not a package, it's a tgz file. Use tar xzvf file.tgz. Go to the OO site and read the install instructions, there are other things you No. It's a package, and

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - see what's happening, and install the darned thing. # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17_2 ! Now another problem comes on installing RRBit-0.5.17_2 as follow; # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean (first)

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. Errr... folks -- packages *are* .tgz files. Except under 5.x where they are .tbz files. They could just as well be .zip files, or some sort of compressed cpio format like .rpms or Solaris packages. It's just a mechanism for

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:32:37PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? No -- in this case the files being referred to are in fact FreeBSD pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using 'tar

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Matthew, Tks for your advice. Can I use 'zxvf' to untar the packages and do 'setup' to install OOo, the normal way not FreeBSD way? No -- in this case the files being referred to are in fact FreeBSD pkg's. You can certainly extract the contents using 'tar -zxvf', but it won't

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-25 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:37:36 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm expecting a reply from Joshua or other folks to my posting whether I can stop running 'make clean' the ports trees in the mid-way. In doing so it won't damage the OS. After clarification I shall install

Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ checked md5 OK $ ls -al ... -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 73105915 Apr 17 18:11

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Stephen, $ su - password You are in /root now. If you use su instead of su -, you will stay in the current directory. # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz pkg_add: can't stat package file 'OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz' Kindly advise what mistake I have committed. #

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ checked md5 OK $ ls -al ...

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download $ cd /usr/home/user/Download/ checked md5 OK $ ls -al ... -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 73105915 Apr 17 18:11

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi $ su - password You are in /root now. If you use su instead of su -, you will stay in the current directory. # pkg_add OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz pkg_add: can't stat package file

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Terry L. Tyson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-24 08:32]: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Terry L. Tyson Jr.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:49:50AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: No. It's a package, and it's *not* a tgz file. But yes, you do need to go do some reading, and there very likely are other things you will need to do. As a previous responder noted, when you 'su -' it simulates a full root login,

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Stephen Liu
[2004-04-24 08:32]: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo OOo_1.1.1.RC3_FreeBSD52Intel_install.tbz was download to /usr/home/user/Download It's not a package, it's a

Re: Open Office - installation problem

2004-04-24 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-24 17:56]: [2004-04-24 08:32]: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:27:28PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.2 I encountered following problem on installing OOo I note that you said when you attempted to correctly

Re: Open Office start up problem

2004-02-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 05:29:19PM +1300, Eamon Daly wrote: Hi, This is probably a simple problem, but can someone please tell me what's happening here? $ ./soffice .: Can't open /usr/home/eamon/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/freebsd-local.sh: No such file or directory $ I'm running

Re: Open Office start up problem

2004-02-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, This is probably a simple problem, but can someone please tell me what's happening here? $ ./soffice .: Can't open /usr/home/eamon/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/freebsd-local.sh: No such file or directory $ I got that too and noticed that, sure enough, there was no such file

Open Office start up problem

2004-02-27 Thread Eamon Daly
Hi, This is probably a simple problem, but can someone please tell me what's happening here? $ ./soffice .: Can't open /usr/home/eamon/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/freebsd-local.sh: No such file or directory $ I'm running FBSD 4.8 on a Compaq Evo N410c. Thanks, Eamon

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-27 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, chip wrote: Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few questions. When I run the command I get command not found,

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-27 Thread chip
Dinesh Nair wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, chip wrote: Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few questions. When I run the command I get

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-26 Thread chip
Chris Pressey wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:32:27 -0800 chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to just run openoffice on the command line and answer a few

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-26 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:29:44AM -0800, chip wrote: Chris Pressey wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:32:27 -0800 chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-26 Thread Yuri GV
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:29:44 -0800, chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pressey wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:32:27 -0800 chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I downloaded and installed the .tbz file, moved it to /usr/local and ran pkg_add. It finished, and the instructions on the screen say to

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-26 Thread chip
Nathan Kinkade wrote: You may have to type 'rehash' first. -Chris I have done that and still no good. -- Chip Try taking a look at what/where the package installed files using pkg_add. On my machine there is no binary or symlink called 'openoffice' either. However, I can do this to find it:

Re: open office install fails after two days of installing

2004-01-26 Thread T Kellers
Open Office should be in /usr/local e. g. /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/ Try cd /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0/ and ./setup (You have to have X running) Tim On Monday 26 January 2004 01:28 pm, Yuri GV wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:29:44 -0800, chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pressey

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