Re: firefox and OpenOffice for 6.1_STABLE

[Gerard Lally <lists+netbsd.port.amd64%netmail.ie@localhost>]

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@

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Gerard Lally