On Aug 9, 2008, at 23:05 , Kevin Richardson wrote:
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.
OUCH! Yes, it is sad that OOo does no longer support us. However,
the source code is available for anyone to compile, and other sites
do compile it for us. Check out the good-day server <ftp://
ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/>
NOTE: The English versions on good-day do not have "-en" in the file
name.
In any case, the most FAQ on this list has to be complaints about
people being sold copies of what is available for free. Sometimes
these vendors charge many times the price you paid, and then point
their customers to this list as their paid support. Six bucks is
reasonable for the disk, envelope and mailing costs. Did you at
least get a recent version of OpenOffice?
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.
Perhaps i remember wrongly. It might have been Jaguar that only
offered X11 as a separate download.
So is X11 starting okeh for you?
--
Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, & a homebuilt Ubuntu box
What's the difference between a dog and a fox? Five beers.
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