Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:04:39 +0800 From: James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org> To: leckert <leckert@neo.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staroffice from ports (not) Message-ID: <01060509043901.10398@evilfry.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3B1C2E7F.12C89A36@neo.rr.com> References: <20010604223539.M95799-100000@doubtful.weeble.foo.uk> <01060508260600.10398@evilfry.dyndns.org> <3B1C2E7F.12C89A36@neo.rr.com>
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Hi there, =09good to here it is working already. The last time the same thing=20 happened to me, it was due to a bad connection ( ISP ) i was having=20 to the download sites. On the last episode Tuesday 05 June 2001 08:57, leckert wrote: > James Lim wrote: > > Hi Tim > > > > All of us would like to assist you :) Could you paste > > your ports-supfile here? > > > > On the last episode Tuesday 05 June 2001 05:37, Tim Joseph wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, James Lim wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Yes that was what I meant, have u tried removing all the > > > > staroffice files and folders in /usr/ports/distfiles and try > > > > to fetch it again? > > I'll just add my $.02, which is not based on anything scientific or > really intelligent. I had tried several times to get Star Office > operational from the ports collection, but each time with negative > results. Tonight, I tried one more time, and, it worked. It > obtained 3 files via ftp, they were: > > soa-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin > so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin > 109939-02.tar.Z > > One connection was from australia, and one from Japan, and for one > I wasn't paying attention, but it all built just like it was > supposed to. Why it chose this time to work after several failures, > I don't know, but I'll gladly take it. The thing is, I didn't do > anything special this time that I didn't do before, I just decided > to give it one more try and it worked. --=20 Regards, James Lim http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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