From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 18: 1:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from evilfry.dyndns.org (dyn15ppp140.qala.com.sg [210.193.15.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEAF37B429 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@evilfry.dyndns.org) Received: by evilfry.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 0) id E8979183BA2; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:04:40 +0800 (SGT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James Lim Reply-To: evilfry@sg.freebsd.org To: leckert Subject: Re: Staroffice from ports (not) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:04:39 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010604223539.M95799-100000@doubtful.weeble.foo.uk> <01060508260600.10398@evilfry.dyndns.org> <3B1C2E7F.12C89A36@neo.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3B1C2E7F.12C89A36@neo.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060509043901.10398@evilfry.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Hi there, =09good to here it is working already. The last time the same thing=20 happened to me, it was due to a bad connection ( ISP ) i was having=20 to the download sites. On the last episode Tuesday 05 June 2001 08:57, leckert wrote: > James Lim wrote: > > Hi Tim > > > > All of us would like to assist you :) Could you paste > > your ports-supfile here? > > > > On the last episode Tuesday 05 June 2001 05:37, Tim Joseph wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, James Lim wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Yes that was what I meant, have u tried removing all the > > > > staroffice files and folders in /usr/ports/distfiles and try > > > > to fetch it again? > > I'll just add my $.02, which is not based on anything scientific or > really intelligent. I had tried several times to get Star Office > operational from the ports collection, but each time with negative > results. Tonight, I tried one more time, and, it worked. It > obtained 3 files via ftp, they were: > > soa-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin > so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin > 109939-02.tar.Z > > One connection was from australia, and one from Japan, and for one > I wasn't paying attention, but it all built just like it was > supposed to. Why it chose this time to work after several failures, > I don't know, but I'll gladly take it. The thing is, I didn't do > anything special this time that I didn't do before, I just decided > to give it one more try and it worked. --=20 Regards, James Lim http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message