Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

One of benefits of the BSD's at least my BSD, the Free one, is anyone can get a
pretty cool workstation by doing:

pkg_add -r xorg
pkg_add -r kde[-lite]
pkg_add -r anything-else-that-strikes-my-fancy

with a couple of configuration commands in between. I suspect the Linux people
that use RPM will have the same comment. Frankly it never occurred to me to do
anything else. If there is a package link from the FreeBSD site, in the future,
that is what I will use, and deal with any problems that arise. This because I
trust that the FreeBSD port/package maintainers will have taken care of any
platform differences. Over the years, the committers have certainly earned that
trust.

I have no such confidence with OOo. Unlike X[org] I do not have to have it so,
if after I learn to use it, on going installs are more trouble that I deem them
to be worth, I will lose it.

My only comments were to thank the poster who mentioned the package, perhaps he
got it from the "approved" site; and to suggest to the FreeBSD maintainers OOo
would get more use if there was a wrapper port (named per chance openoffice)
that would just do the right thing.

There have been a few products that were so good they overcame all obstacles to
their use. Perhaps OOo is one. I do not mean this to be rant, it is just my
opinion with a mild plea to the FreeBSD package maintainers.

This thread dies here. I just felt I should explicitly explain what I tried to
say the first time and to thank the folks that tried to guide me to the correct
package.

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:

I don't understand what the problem is that you all are having. Yes I
do, you're not using a procedure that works well.

If you want the latest Openoffice binary package, which is 2.0.2, you
trundle your web browser over to here:
http://www.openoffice.org/
Click on the green box that says: "Get openoffice.org version 2.0.2"
which redirects you to:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2/index.html. When you get to this
page, you click on the box that says: "Download OpenOffice.org" which
gets you to a page where you select your language, OS, and download
site. If you did it correctly, that "download site" clickdown box will
have "FreeBSD page" in it when selected. This will take you to another
page, here you select the "Continue to Download" box which takes you to
the actual site where you get to pick what you want to download.

Maybe you can go straight to it by using this URL:
http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/

Once you get there, download the darn thing and install it
using "pkg_add <whatever the name is> or using "pkg_add -v <whatever
the name is>.

Oh, I almost forgot, this is how you get a binary package that was built
for Freebsd 5.5 or 6.1

Don


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