Tar command and OpenOffice 1.1 question

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 13:01, ÀîÓî wrote:
> > Hi Stephen Liu,
> >
> > 	 The simple way is to use PORT to install OpenOffice.

For most things the simplest way if to install from ports, because most 
things are relatively small and the build easy and the author makes a 
version for whatever system the author uses (not necessarily FreeBSD) so 
the port maintainer creates a build that will do it for FreeBSD and you 
have to use that build process.    

But in the case of openoffice, the simplest way is to download the binary
package from   http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice    , plunk it in to an
appropriate directory (/usr/local) and run pkg-add on it.

This is because the build for openoffice is so large (4 GB) and long (many
hours) and the openoffice people kindly build FreeBSD versions for you all 
ready to plug in and use in just a few minutes.

The only caveats are that one of the isntructions are wrong.
You have to start up the setup by running  .../base_path/soffice 
instead of .../base_path/openoffice    and there are a couple of
config/script files missing that you probably are expected to 
eventually fill with local config and startup settings, but which
can just be empty until you get clear about what you want to
configure.    One of those is .../openofficexxx/program/freebsd-local.sh
but I don't remember the other at the moment.   It will complain and
refuse to start and name the missing file.  You can just go to the
directory and do a 'touch(1)' on those files to create empty ones and
it will then start up fine.

////jerry

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
> I am aware of "make install 'packagename'' on /usr/ports/.  Because I am 
> running FreeBSD 5.2 on a slow PC I tried avoiding installing OOo from source 
> code.  It will take lengthy time to go through compile, make, make install, 
> etc.  I have experience on Gentoo running installation from source code.  On 
> a slow PC it would be much earier to install OOo1.1 from its tarball.  For 
> the small program 'midnight commander', it took 30 minutes to complete being 
> an example
> 
> This is my 1st time installing/running UNIX.  I don't have much confidence on 
> myself even though this is not my first time installing OOo from tarball nor 
> my first time using tar command.  I have no idea whether there are diference 
> opertaing them between UNIX and Linux.  Therefore I start to post.
> 
> Anyway thanks again for your advice.
> 
> B.R.
> Stephen
> 
> 
> >
> > >Hi all folks, > > >
> > >I have following packages download from OpenOffice site to a folder in
> > > 'user' directory;
> > >
> > >/home/user/download/
> > >en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz
> > >openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
> > >
> > >1) Can I use following command to extract OOo1.1 tarball to a designated
> > >directory;
> > >
> > ># cd /home/user/download/
> > ># tar jxvf openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz -C /usr/share
> > >
> > >2) Is tar command and its tags on FBSD same as Linux
> >
> > Yes, they are the same.
> >
> > >3) Is /usr/ an ideal diretory for OOo1.1 to be extracted to
> >
> > It depends on your partition.
> >
> > >4) Can I use following command to extract the dictionary tarball
> > >
> > ># cd /home/user/download/
> > ># tar zxvf en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz -C /usr/share/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/
> > >
> > >Remark: 'OpenOffice.org1.1.0' is a new folder generated during extracting
> > > OOo 1.1 tarball.
> >
> > you must mannually create the directory.
> >
> > >Kindly advise.  TIA
> > >
> > >B.R.
> > >Stephen Liu
> > >
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