Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:47:35 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: retrieving OpenOffice 1.1 fails Message-ID: <4107E6B7.2000600@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20040728121430.68b844f0@localhost> References: <4107C35F.6030706@pacific.net.sg> <20040728121430.68b844f0@localhost>
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Hi, epilogue wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:16:47 +0800 > Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I try to build OpenOffice-1.1 on FreeBSD 5.2 RELEASE since last Sunday. >> >>Make is not able to download the sources from any of the servers. >> >>I updated the ports tree every day since then and it still does not work. >> >>Are there any other URLs known where to get OpenOffice? > > > with a little effort googling or digging around in the freebsd.org/ports > section or learning the portupgrade+portdowngrade tools, i am sure that you > will be able to locate the sources. however, i would suggest saving both The problem was, when I did this, the source has not been at the servers. To add to this, I normally use www.leo.org as my source for those things. This server is currently not available. > yourself and your machine a lot of time and energy. > > 1) visit and _bookmark_ http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ This is what I did earlier. > 2) click the link to packages and find the version for you > 3) download and place in /usr/ports/packages/All > 4) package_add /path/to/file I came until here. > 5) start working with oo. But could not start working as I ran into a version conflict on some libraries which would automatically be fixed if I would compile it on the target machine. My good luck is, it looks like that I found the sources at an Australian server. Thanks! Erich
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