From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 15:52:15 2003 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 ED43B37B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacbell.net (adsl-63-199-179-203.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.199.179.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38BCC43FAF for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paleph@pacbell.net) Received: (from paleph@localhost) by pacbell.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) id h1J0JNn10165 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:19:23 -0800 From: paleph@pacbell.net Message-Id: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: openoffice too large To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:19:23 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >From: "Brian Henning" >To: "freebsd" >Subject: openoffice too large >Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:30:02 -0600 >Hello- >I am trying to install openoffice from the ports on to a machine that only >has a >4 gig hard drive. During the installation it say it requires at least 4 >gigs of >free space to install. Obviously i cannot have that much free space, is >there a >way to get it installed on this computer with my situation? > >thanks, > >brian > 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. I still have a problem in printing a postscript file produced by openoffice. Can anyone help me with this? Paul Fronberg paleph@pacbell.net PS. Doesn't seem to much documentation yet for openoffice. I found that the staroffice documentation (there are several books) is close enough to answer most questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message