Anyone have any luck installing openoffice?

No I have tried to manually download the package for
openoffice, which 
barfed since dependencies where not present.

pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package where it
should have 
been on the site to download.

I have tried to build from source as well and that fails
since 
the source can not be found. (ports tree updated)

How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right now.

It was't this hard last time I tried.

/Andreas

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 21:45 +0100, anteUpdate.UU.SE confabulated:

>
> No I have tried to manually download the package for
openoffice, which barfed 
> since dependencies where not present.
>
> pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package where
it should have been 
> on the site to download.
>
> I have tried to build from source as well and that
fails since the source can 
> not be found. (ports tree updated)
>
> How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right now.
>
> It was't this hard last time I tried.

Installed fine here under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from the ports
tree:

   /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2

without any errors. Of course I had to manually download the
required Java 
stuff.

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Andreas Davour wrote:
>
> No I have tried to manually download the package for
openoffice, which 
> barfed since dependencies where not present.
>
> pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package where
it should have 
> been on the site to download.
>
> I have tried to build from source as well and that
fails since the 
> source can not be found. (ports tree updated)
>
> How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right now.
>
> It was't this hard last time I tried.
>
> /Andreas
>
I installed mine from ports some time ago and didn't have
any 
difficulties. It took ages to compile however  - obviously -
so if you 
need it right now this might not be an option.

A quick search in ftp's  Latest directory does not reveal an
openoffice 
package, but there is one in the All directory:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stab
le/All/openoffice.org-2.3.1_1.tbz

You could try the following, as root (assuming tcsh):

setenv PACKAGESITE 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stab
le/All/

pkg_add -r openoffice.org-2.3.1_1

(there are also a 2.4 and a 3.0 version there, have a look
at the ftp)


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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, D Hill <d.hillyournetplus.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 21:45 +0100, anteUpdate.UU.SE confabulated:
>  >
>  > No I have tried to manually download the package
for openoffice, which barfed
>  > since dependencies where not present.
>  >
>  > pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package
where it should have been
>  > on the site to download.
>  >
>  > I have tried to build from source as well and
that fails since the source can
>  > not be found. (ports tree updated)
>  >
>  > How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right
now.
>  >
>  > It was't this hard last time I tried.
>
>  Installed fine here under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from the
ports tree:
>
>    /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2
>
>  without any errors. Of course I had to manually
download the required Java
>  stuff.

I tried this shortly after 7.0 was released and the Java
portion of
building OpenOffice-2 from ports wanted an old tzupdater
that Sun no
longer provides. I have yet to update my ports tree so I
don't know if
that has been corrected yet or not; if not, where does one
get the
tzupdater 1.3.0_2007h (I think that's the version it asked
for)?

Thanks,

Colby
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Manolis Kiagias wrote:

> Andreas Davour wrote:
>> 
>> No I have tried to manually download the package
for openoffice, which 
>> barfed since dependencies where not present.
>> 
>> pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package
where it should have been 
>> on the site to download.
>> 
>> I have tried to build from source as well and that
fails since the source 
>> can not be found. (ports tree updated)
>> 
>> How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right
now.
>> 
>> It was't this hard last time I tried.
>
> I installed mine from ports some time ago and didn't
have any difficulties. 
> It took ages to compile however  - obviously - so if
you need it right now 
> this might not be an option.

It's the last option, yes. Even my dual core machine racing
ahead at 
gigahertz will take forever.

> A quick search in ftp's  Latest directory does not
reveal an openoffice 
> package, but there is one in the All directory:
>
>
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stab
le/All/openoffice.org-2.3.1_1.tbz
>
> You could try the following, as root (assuming tcsh):
>
> setenv PACKAGESITE 
>
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stab
le/All/
>
> pkg_add -r openoffice.org-2.3.1_1
>
> (there are also a 2.4 and a 3.0 version there, have a
look at the ftp)

I did some investigating in order to see if I could get
pkg_add to look 
in All and didn't succeed. I'll try your suggestion.
Thanks!

/Andreas

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, D Hill wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 21:45 +0100, anteUpdate.UU.SE confabulated:
>
>> 
>> No I have tried to manually download the package
for openoffice, which 
>> barfed since dependencies where not present.
>> 
>> pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no package
where it should have been 
>> on the site to download.
>> 
>> I have tried to build from source as well and that
fails since the source 
>> can not be found. (ports tree updated)
>> 
>> How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right
now.
>> 
>> It was't this hard last time I tried.
>
> Installed fine here under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from the
ports tree:
>
>  /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2
>
> without any errors. Of course I had to manually
download the required Java 
> stuff.

*sigh* Yeah, that.

Well, since you succeeded maybe it's just 6.3 that's broken.
Or I am.

/Andreas

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 15:03 -0600, colbywgmail.com
confabulated:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, D Hill <d.hillyournetplus.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 21:45 +0100, anteUpdate.UU.SE confabulated:
>> >
>> > No I have tried to manually download the
package for openoffice, which barfed
>> > since dependencies where not present.
>> >
>> > pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no
package where it should have been
>> > on the site to download.
>> >
>> > I have tried to build from source as well and
that fails since the source can
>> > not be found. (ports tree updated)
>> >
>> > How do I install it? I need it pretty bad
right now.
>> >
>> > It was't this hard last time I tried.
>>
>>  Installed fine here under FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from
the ports tree:
>>
>>    /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2
>>
>>  without any errors. Of course I had to manually
download the required Java
>>  stuff.
>
> I tried this shortly after 7.0 was released and the
Java portion of
> building OpenOffice-2 from ports wanted an old
tzupdater that Sun no
> longer provides. I have yet to update my ports tree so
I don't know if
> that has been corrected yet or not; if not, where does
one get the
> tzupdater 1.3.0_2007h (I think that's the version it
asked for)?

The versions of files I was told to download are:

diablo-caffe-freebsd6-i386-1.5.0_07-b01.tar.bz2
jdk-1_5_0_14-fcs-bin-b03-jrl-05_oct_2007.jar
jdk-1_5_0_14-fcs-src-b03-jrl-05_oct_2007.jar
tzupdater-1.3.3-2007k.zip

I recently rebuilt my workstation and installed full KDE.
The Java files 
were a requirement for one of the extras installed for KDE.

I then installed OpenOffice from the ports and it didn't
once complain 
about anything.

This was all done with a current portsnap just before
installing 
everything.

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 at 22:47 +0100, anteUpdate.UU.SE confabulated:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
>> Andreas Davour wrote:
>>> 
>>> No I have tried to manually download the
package for openoffice, which 
>>> barfed since dependencies where not present.
>>> 
>>> pkg_add -r didn't work since there was no
package where it should have 
>>> been on the site to download.
>>> 
>>> I have tried to build from source as well and
that fails since the source 
>>> can not be found. (ports tree updated)
>>> 
>>> How do I install it? I need it pretty bad right
now.
>>> 
>>> It was't this hard last time I tried.
>> 
>> I installed mine from ports some time ago and
didn't have any difficulties. 
>> It took ages to compile however  - obviously - so
if you need it right now 
>> this might not be an option.
>
> It's the last option, yes. Even my dual core machine
racing ahead at 
> gigahertz will take forever.

It only took my computer just over four hours to install
with 2x3Ghz dual 
core and 8Gb RAM.

My computer at work is only a dual PIII with only 1Gb RAM
and it took 
almost 36 hours.

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