How do I install openoffice from packages?

[Danielisz Laszlo]

I
installed OO on FreeBSD 6.2 using this link:
ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.2.1/i386/OOo_2.2.1_FreeBSD62Intel_install_en-US.tbz,
without any problems, exactly what error log do you have?





----- Original Message ----
From: Andreas Davour <ante at Update.UU.SE>
To: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions E-Mail List <FreeBSD-Questions at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:20:59 PM
Subject: Re: How do I install openoffice from packages?

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

> /Andreas,
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Andreas Davour wrote:
>
>> I've tried and it just wont work. It look like the packages don't reside on 
>> the server but I can't change ftp.freebsd.org so how do I get it?
>
> From the Googling I did on the subject recently there is no official binary 
> packages for OpenOffice available.  It is available in the ports tree.  The 
> following thread:
>
> http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=21
>
> on DæmonForums.org has a link to a site:
>
> ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.4.0/7.0-STABLE/amd64/
>
> With binary packages available for various versions of FreeBSD.  Well, the 
> thread pointed to the i386 packages, but the amd64 packages were easy enough 
> to find.

After fooling around a bit with online installs I downloaded the package 
and installed manually. It does complain about other stuff not being 
there. Isn't packages supposed to work like port and pull in 
requirements automagically?

Note: I have 6.3 machine, not 7.0-STABLE so I tried the 6.2 directory.

/Andreas

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