Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openoffice too large Message-ID: <20030219081646.GA27787@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net> References: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net>
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:19:23PM -0800, paleph@pacbell.net wrote: > I, too, had the same problem with the amount of > space needed to "install" openoffice. The partition holding > /usr/ports was way too small on my machine. I finally cheated > and copied the ports directory to a different (and larger) > partition and made /usr/ports a symbolic link to it. The > only problem I had was that the Makefiles seem busted > for openoffice and I had to keep installing *.tz files by > hand into the ./ports/distfiles/ directory from the various > web sites. After a few hours of cursing, finally got a > runable version of openoffice. That's one way of doing it. However, for future reference you'll probably find it a lot easier just to set the WRKDIRPREFIX environment variable to a directory on a partition with plenty of space: no copying /usr/ports around the place needed at all. See the ports(7) man page for more detail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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