Tar command and OpenOffice 1.1 question

Joshua Lokken joshua at twobirds.us
Mon Mar 15 09:36:56 PST 2004


* Stephen Liu <satimis at icare.com.hk> [2004-03-04 07:46]:
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> Tks for your 2 emails and detail advice.
> 
> - snip -
> > > /home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/
> > > en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz
> > > openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
> 
> - snip -
> > Suggest:
> >   cd /home/user/Download
> >   cp openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz /usr/local/.
> >   cd /usr/local
> >   pkg_add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
> > replace instances of {BASE} with /usr/local if needed
> >   /usr/local/OpenOffice-1.1.0_1/program/soffice       to set up
> 
> Proceeded as follows;
> 
> # cp /home/user/Download/openoffice-1.1.0_1  /usr/local/
> # cd /usr/local/
> # pkg_add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
> pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.10_10 !
> pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.10_10 !
> pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17 !
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/
> # make search key=glib-1.2.10_10 | grep glib-1.2.10_10
> # make search key=gtk-1.2.10_10 | grep gtk-1.2.10_10
> # make search key=ORBit-0.5.17 | grep ORBit-0.5.17
> 
> Could not find them.
> 
> Finally I untar  'openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz'  and then ran './setup'
> Now OpenOffice-1.1 is running on FBSD
> 
> But I am still interested to learn the FBSD way of installing OpenOffice-1.1.  
> Where can I find those dependencies?
> 

By doing just a little bit of your own homework ;)

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=openoffice&stype=all

RTFM, and have a wonderful day!

-- 
Joshua

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