Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:12:14 -0400 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: jesse@wingnet.net, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java Message-ID: <20031017191214.CE3097C2F6@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <bmpdvf$bs0$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20031016165951.GH624@databias.co.za> <1066317025.5ank7lwxjf4s@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20031017172344.GA17910@databias.co.za> <20031017200111.05fb4f01.dick@nagual.st> <bmpdvf$bs0$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> said: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +0000 > > Matthew Faircliff <matt@databias.co.za> wrote: > > > >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word > >> docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast! > >> > >> I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD! > > > > Why didn't you just get the FreeBSD precompiled packages for OO-1.1 ?? > > ?? Where/How would I get that? > > I'd love to get 1.1 installed on my FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE machine, but > I don't want to cvsup my ports tree because then I wouldn't be able to > install packages. I'd have to build everything from source. > > Maybe I just don't understand how to use the ports tree 100% yet... If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either ports or packages. Ports are just a very easy automated/scripted way to compile an application from source on your machine, rather than use a package that has been pre-compiled. Jud
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