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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:53:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com>
To:        duiker@haggis.nl, 'Chris' <racerx@makeworld.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Installing OpenOffice from Ports Collection
Message-ID:  <20040128085335.97405.qmail@web14604.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <000301c3e4fb$b23f8f60$2c00000a@zeus>

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--- "Colin J. Raven" <duiker@haggis.nl> wrote:
>  
> +> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:27 am, Colin J.
> Raven wrote:
> +> > Hi all!
> +> > I'm trying to install OpenOffice-1.1 on
> FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE.
> +> > The installation halts - which is in itself
> highly unusual.
> +> 
> +> Forget building it - get the binary. 
> +> http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/
> +> 
> Good advice and thanks for it :-)
> There still appears to be a problem however, small
> though it may be.
> OO.org installer is asking to be pointed at a Java
> environment - and to
> the best of my (limited) knowledge - Java is not/may
> not be installed. I
> don't see any mention of it (by a name that makes
> sense, that is) within
> the ports collection.
> Any suggestions??
> 
> Regards & TIA,
> -Colin
> 
> 
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Binary packages for JRE and JDK can be found at:
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml

FYI: 4.x branch only, details can be found at the
above link.  

Pete

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