David
Thanks much for your response. I will try to keep this short.
My initial attempt to download OOo from the official website met with
failure with an indication that the Mac PPC platform
version of OOo was not available. Further investigation of other OOo
pages uncovered a list of 3rd part providers of
the OOo software. I found an outfit in the list called "The Open
Source Community" stationed out of Eatonville, Washington
that indicated that it could provide OOo for Mac PPC platform. I
purchased and received their cd ($5.95). The Setup Guide"
came on that CD and it was dated 2005 (3 years old). This document
provided the info on dlcompat and the dynamic libraries as
well as brief info on X11. I also got some clues on OOo installation
and X11 from this OOo website document link:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/Howto_OOo_2.0_MacOSX_english.pdf
Since the documentation from the vendor above is 3 years old, I have
serious doubts about it being worth while to try
to install the OOo software from their disk... I may have just
learned a $6.00 lesson.
As to the discussion on my iMac, it was not a typo. It was
originally purchased with OS 9 installed. Through purchase
of subsequent install CD's, I was able to upgrade it to OS X 10 and
ultimately to OS X 10.3. I got to 10.4 through on-line purchase and
"pachage" download and install. I did indeed acquire the X11
software from the 10.3 install disk.
On Aug 9, 2008, at 05:57, David Lowe wrote:
On Aug 8, 2008, at 22:56 , Kevin Richardson wrote:
According to a setup guide I found for OpenOffice.org, I need to
locate three
files which are as follows:
dlcompat
libdl.dylib
libdl.0.dylib
These files are nowhere to be found on my hard drive. How can
these files
be acquired??
I don't know what 'setup guide' you are looking at, but you
needn't muck about in any of the OS innards to install OpenOffice.
I fear it is also quite old: since Panther [OS X 10.3] dlcompat has
only been needed for outdated programs. The dynamic libraries are
stored in a folder hidden from the Finder [/usr/lib] in order to
prevent casual tampering from breaking the OS X installation.
Here is a brief rundown on the machine I would like to install
OpenOffice.org 2.0 on:
Apple iMac model PowerMac2.2
CPU Type PowerPC 750 (83.2)
CPU Speed 500 MHz
Memory 1 GB
OS version OS X v10.4.11
X11 has been installed from a OS X 10.3 install disk. The version
of X11
is somewhat confusing though. When I right-click on the X11 icon
and select
"Get Info" it tells me version 1.0 Copyright 2003. But when I
activate the X11
application and type in "X -version" and <enter>, it tells me
XFree86 Version 4.3.0
I am concludiing the version to be 4.3.0
Do I need to upgrade my version of X11?? If os, any suggestions
on how to do so.
So you say you are running Tiger [OS X 10.4] but you installed X11
from the Panther [OS X 10.3] install disk. I would say this kind
of cross-versioning is generally a Bad Idea, but i also know this
has to be the result of a typo: the Panther install disk did not
include X11. I have to assume that you meant to say that you
installed X11 from the Tiger disk, and Apple's version 1.0 of X11
is consistent with that. The 4.3.0 is the version of XFree86 that
was used as a basis for Apple's X11 1.0.
The immediate question you have is whether you *need* to upgrade
your X11 installation. The answer to that is no. The 1.0 version
is quite robust enough to run OpenOffice. In fact, it is more
stable/usable than the cutting edge version of X11 included in
Tiger [OS X 10.5]. Apple has made a minor upgrade available to 1.0
[1.1.3, IIRC], but it is bells-and-whistles stuff that most users
never need. If you wish to install that, run the Software Update
program to fetch the update.
The normal process for a brand new installation would look like this:
1. Install OS X and update as desired.
2a. Users of 10.3 and 10.4 need to install X11 separately from the OS.
2b. Users of 10.5 should install the XQuartz updates over their
broken X11 installation.
3. Install OpenOffice - for recent versions this is as simple as
dragging the application icon into the Applications folder.
Not too hard, eh? I wonder why you think you need some kinky
setup guide. If you trying this obscure procedure because you are
getting errors from either OpenOffice or X11, then you may as well
share the errors with us - we might be able to walk you through
fixing it.
--
Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, & a homebuilt
Ubuntu box
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