Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 06:16:51 +0100 From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> To: John Wynstra <jwynstra@nyc.rr.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> Subject: Re: another problem Message-ID: <86iqxcyyws.fsf@nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <482F7A89.7070705@nyc.rr.com> (John Wynstra's message of "Sat\, 17 May 2008 20\:38\:33 -0400") References: <482C9DE5.60906@nyc.rr.com> <20080515205252.GA2821@osiris.chen.org.nz> <482CEA3E.1090402@nyc.rr.com> <20080516035346.GA35105@osiris.chen.org.nz> <482DDA7B.6020201@nyc.rr.com> <482DF607.4050209@nyc.rr.com> <482E294B.8010408@nyc.rr.com> <482F061D.7020307@nyc.rr.com> <20080517181438.GA4418@shepherd> <482F3B18.4030302@nyc.rr.com> <8663tcpsu4.fsf@nowhere.org> <482F7A89.7070705@nyc.rr.com>
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John Wynstra <jwynstra@nyc.rr.com> writes:
> I applied this fix, it worked for the previous problem and I came to
> the next one.
The story of my life :-)
> I am getting the impression this is very filthy code.
Couldn't possibly comment!
Not sure I can help directly with this one but ......
1. Is your ports tree up to date? And have you run pkgdb -F lately just
to make the database is in good shape? I'm pretty sure that's NOT the
problem here but never does any harm to check :-)
2. There are ways around building openoffice natively. This was a major
step for me as I need the thing occasionally and my hardware is too
antique to build it that way. You can either
A. Install a native FreeBSD binary package - take a look in
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/
I'm told this should run on a -7.0-release system too. But no
guarantees!
B. Install a *Linux* binary and run that through FreeBSD's
compatibility set-up. This is what I am currently doing and it
works perfectly as far as I can tell. Detailed instructions here
http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/linux_openoffice.html
One other thought - it helps if you reply _beneath_ the person to whom
you are replying. That way Question and Answer follow in logical order,
which helps if there are several layers of Q and A
hth
Glyn
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