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