From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 00:32:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB498106564A for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:32:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F038FC13 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LVb77-0006Qn-Ku for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:32:05 +0000 Received: from pool-71-166-147-125.washdc.east.verizon.net ([71.166.147.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:32:05 +0000 Received: from nightrecon by pool-71-166-147-125.washdc.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:32:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:32:19 -0500 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <00163645923cfac869046238a60d@google.com> <498BC5D3.8040609@gmail.com> <340a29540902060706p24c99991v72a029382a80e2f1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-166-147-125.washdc.east.verizon.net User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Sender: news Subject: Re: having trouble with OpenOffice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@verizon.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:32:08 -0000 Andrew Falanga wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More > 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