Subject: Re: openoffice-linux
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
From: Paul (NCC/CS). <pts@bom.gov.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/06/2004 16:49:40
Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

> Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
> > Does anyone else have open office on their 1.6.2 install working?
> >
> > Other help???
>
> Why do you want to use the Linux version of OpenOffice? AFAIK
> the native version (misc/openoffice/) should work fine on 1.6.2.
>
> Jaromir

Hi Jaromir,
I only went to that because make fetch-list |sh  on misc/openoffice
[ie get all the source] won't get all the source. It complains that it
can't find OOo_1.1.1p1_source.tar.bz2 which seems to have been
deleted from everywhere. I have done a search for this file and found
one on some italian ftp server:). The download has taken about an
hour but it's just finished. I might try building it now.

THKS!
P.





>
>
> > I think this is really important. NetBSD needs to have a working
> > wordprocessor because our work environments even if we are
> > programmers or sysadmins require us to be able to read and write
> > these wretched documents.  We don't want to be forced into a
> > windoze environment just because of this.
> >
> > any help appreciated.
> >
> > thks,
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael Rauch wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:43:32PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
> > > > I wonder can someone help me please, I have 1.6.2 on i386
> > > > and I can't get a wordprocessor to work.
> > > >
> > > > I installed openoffice-linux successfully.
> > > > But when I run soffice as the instructions say, I get :
> > > > "The application cannot be started.
> > > > "The configuration service is not available.
> > > > " Start the setup to repair blah blah...
> > > >
> > > > So I start the setup pgm and it says it has repaired
> > > > successfully.
> > > >
> > > > But when I re run soffice again I get the same error
> > > > message as before.
> > >
> > > does /emul/linux/etc/mtab exist (its content doesn't matter)?
> > >
> > > If it does, can you try to compile a kernel with the patch from rev. 1.61 to
> > > 1.62 of src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_file.c applied (i.e. in this file
> > > replace the "sys_read" in line 983 by a "sys_pread" and the "sys_write" in
> > > line 1008 by a "sys_pwrite") and try again?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Michael
> >
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> > Paul
> > Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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> >
> >
> >
>
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