5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Simon Burke <simon.burke at gmail.com> writes:

> Does anyone know if it is broken? or how i can get an openoffice
> release installed, as 1.0 is apparentlyu broken according to ports and
> 1.1 wont compile sucessfully.

it should compile cleanly if you've set up the required java magic
first. At least that seems to be what trips up most people who try to
build openoffice from ports. 

Fortunately precompiled recent packages are available from
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/
- in several language versions, too (i grabbed the _nb version which
looks to be quite functional so far). There's a bit more info available
at http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ too.

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