having trouble with OpenOffice

[Andrew Falanga]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:

> af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed.
>> However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but
>> seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do
>> this:
>>
>> [andy at sniper /usr/home/andy]$ /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-2.4.2-scalc
>> I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
>> The application cannot be started.
>> The component manager is not available.
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>>
>> As you can tell, OpenOffice failed because my OS doesn't support locale
>> "en_US." Huh!?! I'm using the English version. In fact, the only way to
>> consider me as being bilingual is something of a matter of mental gymnastics
>> because English is spoken in England and to me, England is a foreign
>> country. Thus, I'm bilingual, or at the least, I speak a foreign language.
>>
>> Never the less, how would this be fixed?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>  Is there a reason you're not using /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3?
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2006-November/002847.html
>

I didn't want to wait for compilation.

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