From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 02:04:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C677D106566C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:04:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF318FC19 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id oBS0vxb5041919 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id oBS0vxa2041918 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101228005759.GA41866@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Subject: Openoffice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:04:17 -0000 Hi, It has been a long time since I tried to install Openoffice from packages, but I would prefer not to have to build it. I have been fishing around at all the old sites where I found it some years ago and can't seem to find anything reasonable. eg.: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ and: http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/ I get lists of files that are not clear as to what to download plus when I try to download one that looks like it is for FreeBSD 8.1 it fails complaining it cannot change directory or find a directory. pkg_add -r fails with the following two messages. Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz: No address record pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz' by URL The latest thing I could get from freebsd.org was version 2.4.3_2 and I had to manually download that. Is there anything more recent that is reliably available? By the way I tried Abiword and could not read in a plain text file - one with just regular text created with vi. It made some irregular blob in the middle of the page that looked like all the characters mushed together. Otherwise I would be using that and ignoring Openoffice. ////jerry