Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:08:58 -0700 From: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: having trouble with OpenOffice Message-ID: <340a29540902060708x9dfea1h9e1cb3b344da1c3f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <498BC5D3.8040609@gmail.com> References: <00163645923cfac869046238a60d@google.com> <498BC5D3.8040609@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote: > af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. >> However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but >> seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do >> this: >> >> [andy@sniper /usr/home/andy]$ /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-2.4.2-scalc >> I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" >> The application cannot be started. >> The component manager is not available. >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) >> >> >> As you can tell, OpenOffice failed because my OS doesn't support locale >> "en_US." Huh!?! I'm using the English version. In fact, the only way to >> consider me as being bilingual is something of a matter of mental gymnastics >> because English is spoken in England and to me, England is a foreign >> country. Thus, I'm bilingual, or at the least, I speak a foreign language. >> >> Never the less, how would this be fixed? >> >> Andy >> >> Is there a reason you're not using /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3? > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2006-November/002847.html > Thanks for the thread, by the way. Tonight, when I get home, I'll give this a try. On the heals of my last post, I should also mention that I failed to find a pre-built package for version 3 so I used version 2. I downloaded this from the FreeBSD ftp server from packages-stable. Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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