OpenOffice 2.0 under Gnome 2.12.1

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Rob Mason wrote:

> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
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>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Rob Mason wrote:
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>>> I have the linux module loaded, but must confess that I've never had the 
>>> need to use it. How would I go about install the linux versions of OOo - 
>>> pkg_add???
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>> No, sorry it won't be that simple.
>> 1) Download the Linux stuff from www.openoffice.org - mine is
>> called
>> OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar.gz (de for german)
>> 2) # gunzip OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar.gz
>> 3) # tar zxf OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_de.tar
>> which will produce a - besides other stuff - a directory
>> called RPMS .
>> 4) # cd RPMS
>> 5) # rpm -i --nodeps --ignorearch --ignoreos *
>> 6) For some Linux reasons all executables now are placed in a
>> directory called /opt/openoffice.org2.0
>> 
>> Good Luck!
>> 
>> Uli.
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>>> Rgds
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>>> Rob
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> Many thanks - it appeared to install, but the folloiwng error appeared when I 
> tried to run 'soffice'
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> /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin.bin: error while loading shared 
> libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
O.K. here starts the difficult part. I have got some hundred 
ports installed and probably all the right ones I need for this.
I think you need
/usr/ports/x11/linux-XFree86-libs

Uli.



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