Word processor for 6.1

[Perry Hutchison]

> >>> Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1?
> >>> AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build.
> >> What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently
> >> compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package.
> > 
> > Both of them (and also Dia) require Glib, which won't build for me.
> > I posted details of the failure to freebsd-gnome a day or two ago.
> 
> Looking at that post it seems something failed when you tried to
> update your ports collection.

I suspect the blunder was in trying to update Ports at all, given it
is a new 6.1 CD install and nothing *else* is updated.  The Handbook
suggests to always update Ports before trying to fetch/build anything,
but that does not seem to have worked out very well in this case.

> I'd suggest you delete it (keep distfiles though so you won't have
> to fetch again), unpack again the ports.tgz, then install cvsup
> and update the ports collection using that.

I hesitate to get onto the cvsup treadmill -- from reading the
website, tracking CURRENT did not sound like my desired usage model.
I suspect what I really need is to have the entire Ports mechanism,
including any downloaded distfiles, frozen as of 6.1-RELEASE.
Unfortunately, the Handbook does not seem to cover that situation,
at least in the Ports section.

> If you installed programs from packages when you installed the
> system, you may get problems with version conflicts installing
> from an updated ports collection - this happens usually when the
> last release is getting old. In that case, maybe you should clean
> out the system, deinstall all packages, update ports and start
> again. This takes time .... but given that 6.2 is coming up.

It would also thoroughly defeat the purpose of installing from CD!

I wonder if I ought to wipe the partitions and start completely over
with a fresh install, and this time *don't* try to update the Ports.