Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:32:19 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having trouble with OpenOffice Message-ID: <gmikpo$hl8$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <00163645923cfac869046238a60d@google.com> <498BC5D3.8040609@gmail.com> <340a29540902060706p24c99991v72a029382a80e2f1@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More > <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote: > >> af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice >>> installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an >>> answer to yet but seems to be related to the X server (from searches on >>> the net). So, I do this: >>> >>> [andy@sniper /usr/home/andy]$ /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? >>> [snip] Two things come to mind. You can change your locale to one of the en_US varieties. Probably not what you want to do. The other is to install the appropriate en_GB OpenOffice.org I18N langpack. O_o.org out of the box only has built in for en_US, but there are langpacks available for many others. A quick perfunctory perusal of the ports tree and I didn't see these. Possibly this might be useable: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ -Mike
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