On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 17:41 -0700, Cary Howe wrote: > Looks like my migration to Mac is costing me Open > Office. After waiting forever for an Intel Mac version > I tried to in stall it only to get that bloody X11 > warning. Well I have dug in and tried to sort through > X11 but I'm not a hacker and haven't a clue how to > shoe horn it into my machine and being new to Mac I'm > wary of screwing up my system. I'm not a novice and > have built a lot of machines over the years and have > worked with computers for 20 years now. Unfortunately > I mostly use software and I'm not into manually > installing software. I did some of it back in the DOS > days but X11 seems way over my head. Really upsetting > that I have to give up on Open Office because of this > required utility. I just don't know what else to do at > this point. I hate Microsoft Office so I can't go back > to it but there just isn't much else out there. It may > have seemed like a cool thing to do running Open > Office through the Unix portion of OSX but it leaves a > lot of users like me out in the cold. Is there a > version of X11 that self installs? >
I can relate. However, it seems you have missed some good docs on setting up. Please see both http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf and http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/Howto_OOo_2.0_MacOSX_english.pdf -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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