Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-08 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
On June 6, 2006 00:44, Tobias Ulmer wrote: Search the ports@ mailing list, there's a port for it. Thanks for the tip and also for the link with instructions. Yes, I was able to underatand it. :-) The title of the site chruetertee.ch, however, took me some more time. :- I found something

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-08 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
On Thu, June 8, 2006 00:44, Bob Beck wrote: ... I use OpenOffice with sudo soffice.bin .. Shudder. My glasses just went dark. That's fucking terrifying. Seriously dude, You are begging for a security problem doing this. Thank you for pointing this out to me. If you have perused my previous

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-08 Thread John Fiore
Is it maybe a permissions issue on the directory that OpenOffice uses as temporary space to save your files while you're working on them? On 6/8/06, Nikolaus Hiebaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, June 8, 2006 00:44, Bob Beck wrote: ... I use OpenOffice with sudo soffice.bin ..

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-08 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
* John Fiore wrote on Jun 8, 2006 [08:22, -0500] : Is it maybe a permissions issue on the directory that OpenOffice uses as temporary space to save your files while you're working on them? I checked the settings in OpenOffice: temporary files are written to /tmp and My Documents are written to

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-08 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:21:02AM +0200, Nikolaus Hiebaum wrote: On June 6, 2006 00:44, Tobias Ulmer wrote: Search the ports@ mailing list, there's a port for it. Thanks for the tip and also for the link with instructions. Yes, I was able to underatand it. :-) The title of the site

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-07 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:51:28 +0200 (CEST) Nikolaus Hiebaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on OpenBSD (cf. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=112984281031654w=2). Unfortunately, his blog

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-07 Thread Siju George
On 6/7/06, Frank Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Le Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:51:28PM +0200, Nikolaus Hiebaum ecrivait : In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on OpenBSD Openoffice.org still works fine under OpenBSD. I don't have any

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-07 Thread Siju George
On 6/7/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/06, Frank Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Le Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:51:28PM +0200, Nikolaus Hiebaum ecrivait : In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on OpenBSD

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-07 Thread Frank Denis
Le Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:09:04PM +0530, Siju George ecrivait : Thankyou so much Frank for your reply. Will the same steps work for an amd64 OpenbSD 3.9 ? Unfortunately not, only on i386. -- Frank Denis - frank [at] nailbox.fr - Young Nails / Akzentz nail tech http://forum.manucure.info -

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-07 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hello, Thanks for these pointers. It worked. The only oddity is that I can only start OpenOffice by typing soffice.bin. soffice will not work, as well as swriter or scalc. When I start soffice.bin as a regular user, the respective application either freezes or doesn't allow me to save

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hello, In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on OpenBSD (cf. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=112984281031654w=2). Unfortunately, his blog where the steps were listed is off-line

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Frank Denis
Hello, Le Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:51:28PM +0200, Nikolaus Hiebaum ecrivait : In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on OpenBSD Openoffice.org still works fine under OpenBSD. I don't have any host with X11 right now, but the basic steps to

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:51:28PM +0200, Nikolaus Hiebaum wrote: Hello, In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on OpenBSD (cf. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=112984281031654w=2). Unfortunately, his blog where the steps were

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread jjhartley
Original message from Frank Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Openoffice.org still works fine under OpenBSD. I don't have any host with X11 right now, but the basic steps to install it were : - pkg_add redhat_base - get the Openoffice.org RPM - /emul/linux/bin/rpm --ignoreos --ignorearch -ivh

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:38:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original message from Frank Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Openoffice.org still works fine under OpenBSD. I don't have any host with X11 right now, but the basic steps to install it were : - pkg_add redhat_base - get

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Andrés Delfino
Follow these steps, they worked just fine to me in OpenBSD 3.9: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/openoffice_on_openbsd.html Good luck On 6/6/06, Nikolaus Hiebaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-11-23 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
Hello, I followed the instructions for installing OpenOffice 2.0, and initially it worked fine. However, OpenOffice wouldn't start. So, abesent mindedly I deleted /opt and when I want to re-install OpenOffice I get a bunch of messags telling me it's already installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-11-23 Thread Nikolaus Hiebaum
* Vladas Urbonas wrote on Nov 23, 2005 [18:38, +0900] : first of all run /var/lib/rpm -qa | grep openoffice to see if you deleted the previous install corectly; because if you just deleted /opt the rpm db records had been left unchanged. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-11-21 Thread Edd Barrett
On 21/11/05, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Way back in October, you wrote to misc@ and said, in part... I tried this on OBSD-3.7-stable and it loads up fine, as soon as you actually begin to type a document I see a crash and this to stderr: terminate called after throwing an

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-11-01 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
Hi, First, thanks for quick howto at http://www.00f.net/php/show-article.php/openoffice_on_openbsd Iam running 3.8 stable and have a problem when I do as your page describes, cd /usr/ports/emulators/redhat/base make install clean distclean ends up with the lines bellow... Checksum OK

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-24 Thread Roy Morris
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Uwe Dippel Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 11:36 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:47:43 -0400, Roy Morris wrote: Confirmed! Works on 3.7-stable. There were a few items which you may or may

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-24 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:31:11AM -0400, Roy Morris wrote: Sure, I think the ones I found were A. unless you want to see this error over and over do a touch /etc/mnttab You could also touch /emul/linux/etc/mnttab to not pollute the native OpenBSD filesystem namespace. [...] Kind

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-23 Thread Rico
Hi, A little while back I got OpenOffice.org 2.0 to work on OpenBSD 3.8 snapshots. I didn't use the linux proc and I didn't install the RPM's. I used rpm2cpio to convert the RPM's, then I used cpio to extract the achives. I enabled linux emulation and then just ran the soffice.bin file.

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-22 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:47:43 -0400, Roy Morris wrote: Confirmed! Works on 3.7-stable. There were a few items which you may or may not want to include in your blog, If your interested let me know I'll send them to you. Go ahead, share them with us, please, as well. Some are looking forward to

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-20 Thread Antonios Anastasiadis
indeed! btw nice blog there :)

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-20 Thread Roy Morris
Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote: Hello, Just a little note to tell that the just-released OpenOffice.org 2.0 perfectly works on OpenBSD with the Linux emulation (tested with OpenBSD-current). Basic instructions: http://www.00f.net/php/show-article.php/openoffice_on_openbsd Best regards,