Subject: Re: OpenOffice available for NetBSD
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@netbsd.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/20/2002 09:08:40
In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0202200352520.5246-100000@rfhpc8317>, Hubert Feyrer w
rites:

>
>To build OpenOffice 641 from source, update pkgsrc and then type "make
>install" in pkgsrc/misc/openoffice.  A binary package compiled for
>NetBSD 1.5.3_ALPHA/i386 with XFree 4.2.0 is available as
>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/i386/All/openoffice-641.tgz. 

Given the reports of instability with XFree 4.2.0, I'm reluctant to 
switch.  Will this binary (or, for that matter, the source) work with 
4.1.0 or 4.0.3?

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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