Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:09:12 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Cc: openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [concern] : disk space needed for building openoffice Message-ID: <20021002170912.GA27205@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20021002164338.GC2483@iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <20021002164338.GC2483@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Hello, Fernan Aguero! On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:43:38PM -0300, you wrote: > I'm a StarOffice-52 user, and I've been watching progress on the > openoffice port, waiting to try it. It seems that it is no longer > marked as BROKEN, but something is still preventing me from trying > it. There is a NOTICE that appears upon starting the installation > that says that I'd need plenty of disk space to build it (4 GB). > > Is this real? Yes. It's real. > Currently I've a 5 GB partition for /usr, and use never got > over 75%, even with lots of downloaded stuff in > /usr/ports/distfiles. Now with a fresh install, I'm using 1.5 GB > and have nearly 3 GB free. This includes all the FreeBSD sources, > which I keep updated and the remnants of my last buildworld + > buildkernel (which I didn't 'make clean' yet). You should not 'make clean', just remove your object directory with rm -rf /usr/obj (in default case). It will take much less time. > Is it possible that builduing an office suite consumes far more > resources that a full blown OS? I'm just intrigued :| Yes. It's true. But you can download pre-built binary packages from maintainer's site: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-openoffice" in the body of the message
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