Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Openoffice Message-ID: <20101228005759.GA41866@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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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
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