for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org
Thu Jul 19 11:26:14 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Vaclav Kadlcik <kron24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from
> ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches
> flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs
> fine for me.
>
> I downloaded Linux' x86 tar package, did tar xf to get RPMs
> and finally:
>   for i in *rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -ivd; done
> That created opt/libreoffice3.5. You can move where you like
> and start it using libreoffice3.5/program/soffice.
>
> (I'm tracking 9-STABLE with Linux compatibility enabled it this
> matters.)
>
> May this help someone lazy or impatient like me...
> Oli

Thanks for sharing this! OO should have been replaced by LO a long
time ago on FBSD


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