From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 20:39:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFC837B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7497343E4A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021003033916.YSWF9928.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 03:39:16 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g933fxMX028498; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g933foKf028495; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Dru Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OpenOffice User Installation References: <20021002184413.O1552-100000@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 02 Oct 2002 20:41:50 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20021002184413.O1552-100000@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> Message-ID: <4kvg4ktcht.g4k@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dru writes: > Looks like I'll wait until 4.7 is out of RC and then try again. Thanks for > the help. Maybe you had a reason for going the port route, but if not, you could try the package route. I've forgotten where I got the package; Italy or somewhere, but probably via a link from www.openoffice.org. I did $ PKG_TMPDIR=/u/tmp pkg_add -v openoffice-1.0.1_2.tbz2 $ PKG_TMPDIR=/u/tmp pkg_add -v en-ooodict-US-1.0.tbz2 Google might find one of those file names if openoffice.org fails you. It seems to work OK though I didn't even do it as root as I'm trying an experiment: I gave most of the port/package directories to a non-root user and he tries to do building and installing so errant scripts won't wipe out more important things, like OS files and personal files. It looks like many scripts want to install things as root:wheel, but I'm hoping that many of them can be fixed by doing: BINOWN=port_pkg_user BINGRP=port_pkg_group make install I suspect that too many scripts will still break to make this practical, but I really hate the idea of running app scripts as root and am going to try to make this work. I might wind up bugging a lot of people about fixing their nasty scripts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message