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Date:      Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:15:51 -0700
From:      "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net>
To:        Lewis Kapell <lkapell@ncia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: StarOffice 6.0 ? 
Message-ID:  <200207091915.g69JFp7Z000723@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:21:24 EDT." <20020709131553.A952-100000@lewis> 

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Hello,

All you have to do is buy the StarOffice 6.0 package from Sun, download it, 
and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles. The port then builds just fine.

You need to have a LINUX java kit installed (port linux-sun-jdk13, for example)
and you may have to help the StarOffice installer find it during installation.

Anyway, StarOffice 6.0 works OK for me, with one annoying problem which I have 
mentioned before in some postings.

I use the port of cfs (Matt Blaze's Cryptographic File System). Using the old 
StarOffice 5.2 I was able to read and write files to cfs mounted directories 
with no problem. With StarOffice 6.0 (and OpenOffice 1.0) however, reading 
works OK, but writing causes the program to bomb and to delete the original 
file! Nasty. I just have not had the energy to plow through the source for 
OpenOffice to find out what is happening.

Good luck,

Brian


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In message <20020709131553.A952-100000@lewis>, Lewis Kapell writes:
>I expected this to have been discussed, but couldn't find anything in the
>archives.  The instructions for the StarOffice 6.0 port still talk about
>downloading the installer from Sun's web site.  Does this port work with
>the final version of 6.0 since it is not a free download?  If I purchase
>StarOffice 6.0 can I use the Linux installer on the installation CD to
>install the FreeBSD port?
>
>Thanks,
>Lewis Kapell
>
>
>
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