OpenOffice 2.3

[Mike Clarke]

On Thursday 27 March 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote:

> (BTW, there are pre-built packages for all OpenOffice versions:
>
>  
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/editor
>s/
>
>  -- have you considered trying them?)

I tried this about a week ago without much success. I could get 
openoffice.org-2.3.1_1 to run but when I tried to open an .odt with 
writer it hung with the following errors:

(process:2307): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization 
assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function

(process:2307): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 
`initialization_value != 0' failed

(process:2307): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 
`G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

I also tried openoffice.org-2.4.20080308 from the same directory. 
That "sort of" worked - I could open files but the formatting was wrong 
with lots of spaces missing. But 2.4 is still in development (I think) 
so things like that might be to be expected.

-- 
Mike Clarke