From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 16:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1987B37BE09 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:39:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAA18 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:39:51 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1653; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:43:13 +1000 Message-ID: <38F65AE2.E6B643A@S1.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:40:18 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J McKitrick Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staroffice from cdrom References: <20000413204037.A1865@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000414000117.A233@parish> <20000414002220.A4327@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hullo Jonathon, > > So what is the trick to install it? > I didn't install from CD - I download all 10 files and then started from there, but because there was something like 70MB of zip-file, and another 130MB when this was unpacked, this did nasty things to my /usr area :'/ I noticed that the files needed to be in /usr/ports/distfiles/staroffice5, so I put them onto another device, and did an "ln -s" from /usr/ports/distfiles across to where the staroffice5 directory actually was. Worked just fine (after I straightened a few other things out, like the Checksum of the concatenated zip files being different from the single 70MB zipfile expected by the Make.) If you need further help, just hollar :') hth, H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message