John: Follow the steps at the following location to install X11 on your Mac.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/installing/X11.html For now, X11 is required because the application was ported from the UNIX world as are other applications like InkScape. Yes, efforts are underway to change from the X11 interface to the Apple Aqua interface. This takes a great deal of work. James McKenzie -----Original Message----- >From: "John W. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 27, 2006 8:58 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [users] Installing openOffice on Mac > >I downloaded openOffice 2.0 from the web site. when I tried to >install it I received the message, " openOffice.org is not installed >on your system. Please re-install it." This is hard for me to >understand because I see that openOffice.org is listed in the >applications folder. There was nothing mentioned on the install CD >about X11.app. Even though I received the error message I previously >reported about X11.app when I looked for it in the utilities folder I >could not find it. > >On Oct 27, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: > >> On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:12 pm, John W. Thompson wrote: >>> Today, I received a CD install disk for openOffice 2.0. I am using >>> a PowerMac running Panther(OS 10.4.8) and I have 768 megs of DRMM.. >>> I tried to install openOffice and after I copied it to the >>> Applications folder, it would not open. The info for installation >>> on a Mac, said that I would need X11.app in order to install the >>> openOffice. I was referred to Apple support and I downloaded that >>> file butr when I went to install it, I received the message that " >>> it couldn't be installed because newer software was already >>> installed. >>> >>> The CD said that installation was easy, but I have not found that >>> to be true. Can you give me some advice regarding this issue? >>> >>> John W. Thompson >> >> From another member of this mailing list: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> You have to use the installation disk to install the X11 windowing >> system. There is a good How-To here: >> >> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/Howto_OOo_2.0_MacOSX_english.pdf >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> I would also suggest you look over the information avaiable at >> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/. >> >> Dan > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
