Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:40:49 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: <duiker@haggis.nl>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection Message-ID: <200401271141.12573.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus> References: <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 January 2004 11:33 am, Colin J. Raven wrote: > +> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:27 am, Colin J. Raven wrote: > +> > Hi all! > +> > I'm trying to install OpenOffice-1.1 on FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. > +> > The installation halts - which is in itself highly unusual. > +> > +> Forget building it - get the binary. > +> http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ > +> > Good advice and thanks for it :-) > There still appears to be a problem however, small though it may be. > OO.org installer is asking to be pointed at a Java environment - and to > the best of my (limited) knowledge - Java is not/may not be installed. I > don't see any mention of it (by a name that makes sense, that is) within > the ports collection. > Any suggestions?? > > Regards & TIA, > -Colin Java is NOT a requirement for the binary install. It does mention that some= =20 functionality may be missing if you opt to install without Java.=20 I did so - and I can't see any issues. =2D --=20 Best regards, Chris =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAFqK2D5P/gMAbw2MRAuGfAJ9QUV4XnHoApHjrqmOPPq65dU89xgCfWhPu 2oM/zF9+BZfDxzHwhLSgY9o=3D =3DnvpQ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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