Re: firefox and OpenOffice for 6.1_STABLE

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

It may be worth noting that firefox36 requires fonts/freetype-tt
(maybe precisely that, or maybe just some font set) to work.   I
discovered that accidentally while trying to install the Linux port of
OpenOffice.

Kind regards,

--
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> At date and time Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:53:57 +0100 (BST), Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to replace some ageing machines with a clutch of amd64's,
> > planning to get one machine going with the basic suite of packages we
> > all use and then cloning the installation onto the others.
> > 
> > Firefox36, whether compiled from pkgsrc or added with pkg_add crashes
> > on startup, reporting issues with Pango and font selection, and then
> > segfaults.    OpenOffice appears not to have made it into amd64 at
> > all.
> > 
> > Advice please on how to get these two rather important applications
> > going.   Do I need to use Linux versions, or i386 versions?
> > Debugging large packages is not the best use of my time, but I use
> > these two constantly as part of my day job, and I've been unexpectedly
> > and unwillingly dependent on Windows.
> 
> Sorry I can't be of help to you Steve but you might have more joy with
> this on the pkgsrc-users list.
> 
> pkgsrc-users@
> 
> -- 
> Gerard Lally
> 
>