Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
From: Tom Snell (gracchus_at_getnet.net)
Date: 05/31/03
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:23:51 -0700 To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
David Gerard wrote:
> OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it
> came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time.
>
> So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from
> ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It
> starts up, but crashes when you try to save anything (dies with an internal
> error).
>
> The README claims it works with FreeBSD 4.5 and up, but I'll believe that
> when I see it doing so.
>
> What are others' experiences so far? Is there some undocumented hoop one
> must jump through to get it to behave itself?
Like another poster mentioned, I can't say I've ever had much luck
attempting to compile OO from source. After several attempts beginning
with OO 1.0, I began downloading the binary package from the OpenOffice
FreeBSD Project at http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ . OO is still a
little quirky in FBSD....I've seen it completely crash XWindows when
attempting to open docs in Writer, whether in .doc or its own .swx
format, or crash just OO itself. The latest available build,
openoffice-1.0.3_2 (built on 4.8-RELEASE with FBSD GCC 3.2.1) is what I
feel is the most stable build so far....it's behaving a lot better and I
work with it regularly. Kudos to the FBSD OpenOffice team....it's a
massive project, but needs support for such a key desktop app. BTW, one
of the coolest features, available since 1.0.2 I believe, is the setup
of the built-in PDF Converter, basically setting up a pipe to
ghostscript in the openoffice-spadmin utility.....it rocks....opened a
41-page MS Word doc in OO, printed to PDF Converter, got a nice .pdf doc
in about 2 seconds! This in itself is worth having OO installed.
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