From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 9:39:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C9637B69F; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:38:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0MHaU723908; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:36:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A6C6F24.D38D4D07@mail.iowna.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:34:28 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kurtis Peterson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office 5.2 port References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As someone pointed out already, Staroffice is in the ports tree. I just installed it just the other day so I can vouch for the fact that it works. The only thing I want to point out is that I'm running a 4.2-STABLE system and I cvsupped to the most recent ports tree immediately before installing. -Bill Kurtis Peterson wrote: > A few weeks ago I decided that I hated having to reboot to windows to run > StarOffice. So I got off my lazy ass and decided to install it on FreeBSD > release 4.1.1 I didn't find it in the ports collection or under > /stand/sysinstall so I went onto the site and downloaded the port from > freebsd.org. But the port didn't work, it spewed forth a half dozen errors > and died. I have fixed them (most were little shit like the lack of an md5 > file) and have re-archived the port. If you would like a copy of my working > port just e-mail me and I'll send it. You can look through it yourselves if > you like. Please keep up the great work as FreeBSD is the greatest OS on > the planet!! Thanks again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message