Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:52:28 -0500 From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) To: FreeBSD-Emulation <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Openoffice linux version Message-ID: <86offzi22b.fsf@haggis.aae.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020501224117.A17253@dca.net> (Chris Griffiths's message of "Wed, 1 May 2002 22:41:17 -0400") References: <20020501224117.A17253@dca.net>
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Chris Griffiths <cgriffiths@dca.net> writes: > In case anyone is interested, There seem to be a few of us, yes. ;-) > I was able to install the OO 1.0 for linux on my -stable system using > linux_base 6.1 today. I have seen several posts before about previous > version working under linux_base-7 and so forth, but I have had zero luck > with any of them until today (The install usually core dumped). I'm probably missing something obvious here, but what changed? Is there a new OO installer available? I seem to recall something about weekly builds from the Codeweavers list, but I'm not keeping up with that list too well, either. > The install works flawlessly, no errors and OO works better than my > StarOffice6 beta that I had installed, (It even opened several docs that > SO6 had trouble with). I look forward to a native version, but for the > time being I can report that -stable can run OO 1.0. Can you edit equations in Word? Graphics? Thanks for reporting your success. I _really_ need something like this to work--Word and PowerPoint are taking over around here, and my little BSD habit (I can quit any time I want!) is coming to be viewed as a problem. Cheers, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Visiting Senior Research Scientist & Visiting Lecturer Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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