Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:21:35 +0100 From: "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Openoffice Message-ID: <20101228032135.5d1edcc3.dcdowse@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20101228005759.GA41866@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20101228005759.GA41866@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:57:59 -0500, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, that is where i dwnld my oo pkg. http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ -> ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/ and I had no problems whatsoever with dwnld and installing it. cheers -- Daniel Dowse \\|// (o o) -----------ooO-(_)-Ooo--------------------------- - With great power comes great responsibility - -------------------------------------------------
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